Liege & Lief (1969)

By Fairport Convention

Liege & Lief is the fourth album by the British folk rock band Fairport Convention. It prominently features Sandy Denny as lead female vocalist and was the first Fairport Convention album to feature future long-serving personnel Dave Swarbrick and Dave Mattacks on violin/mandolin and drums, respectively, as full band members. It is also the first Fairport album on which all songs are either adapted (freely) from traditional British and Celtic folk material, or else are original compositions written and performed in a similar style. Although Denny and founding bass player Ashley Hutchings quit the band before the album's release, Fairport Convention has continued to the present day to make music strongly based within the British folk rock idiom, and are still the band most prominently associated with it.

Released

1969