Matty Groves : Dirty Linen / Fairport Convention

30 years ago, Steeleye Span gave me a chance to find traditional music.
My most favorite Trad band.

But I can tell you honestly the greatest British Trad band is not this band .
It is Fairport Convention.
With my mortification, Fairport Convention is on a high level from Steeleye Span.
Fairport Convention has the highest stataus of British Trad.
It is fact that Steeleye Span themseves is offshot from Fairport Convention.

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[mumuearth7]

@ngiya Her name was too long to fit the lines. The singer's shit here - a shame.

[mumuearth7]

Up to Angel Delight.

[mumuearth7]

Hairsport made better albums than The Spanners, Mr.

[MrHistorian123]

I cannot agree with the poster of this video that Fairport were better than Steeleye Span.

Hark the Village Wait, Below the Salt and Parcel of Rogues are as good, if not better, than anything Fairport did, good though Liege and Lief and Unhalfbricking are. And Steeleye uncorked They Called Her Babylon late on in their career, an album the later incarnations of Fairport could never aspire to.

[zafari72]

Exelente video,exelente grupo,uno de mis favoritos

[IStoleYourPotatoes]

@mrmanly08 Of course you are correct sir. I didn't check my facts but relied on my memory which fails me at times.

[mrmanly08]

@IStoleYourPotatoes What We did on Our Holidays was NOT Fairport's first album it was in fact an album called Fairport Convention which featured twin vocalists in Judy Dyvbe and Ian Matthews later of Matthews Southern Comfort it also featured Simon Nicol (the only member of the original Fairport still in the band), a young Richard Thompson, Ashley Hutchings (who went on to form Steeleye Span and Albion Band) and poor olkd Martin Lamble on drums who soon after died in a motorway accident.

[ngiyaxolisa]

@sexyghostelephant There are many different versions of this old ballad, perhaps the earliest being "Little Musgrave and Lord Barnard's Lady" in which "Matty" is a knight not a commoner and presumably a better matched adversary for Lord Arnold/Barnard. Even so, it ends with Matty's death and the rather more brutal murder of the defenseless Lady Barnard. I always found it interesting that we're never told her name in any of the versions. Insult to injury?

[Jimala3]

LARRY KEEL

[IStoleYourPotatoes]

Akhunslet: The U.S.A. pressing was self-titled. The British pressing of the same album was called What We Did on Our Holidays. Read my post again. If you want to buy the first album on cd it will be titled What We Did on Our Holidays. I have the self-titled U.S.A. pressing from the time on vinyl. When I bought the cd it was called by the original name of What We Did on Our Holidays, the British title.