Angel Delight (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Angel Delight
Type = studio
Artist = Fairport Convention


Released = June 1971
Recorded = at Sound Techniques Ltd
Genre = Folk-Rock
Length = 36:46
Label = Island Records
Producer = Fairport Convention & John Wood
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://wc07.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:difyxqy5ld6e link]
Last album = "Full House" (1970)
This album = "Angel Delight" (1971)
Next album = "Babbacombe Lee" (1971)

"Angel Delight" is the sixth album by the British folk rock band Fairport Convention. This was the first Fairport Convention album without guitarist Richard Thompson, and the lineup consisted of Simon Nicol (guitar, vocals) (the only original group member), Dave Swarbrick (violin, vocals), Dave Pegg (bass, vocals), and Dave Mattacks (drums).

The title derives from "The Angel" in Little Hadham, Hertfordshire, a former pub which the band were living in at the time, [cite web | url = http://www.fairportconvention.com/dave_pegg_history.php | title = History of Fairport | accessdate = 2008-05-19] and the eponymous track is autobiographical, referring to "John the Wood" (co-producer), "Dave the Drum" (Mattacks), and even detail such as "peer through the haze watching Top Of The Pops". The band moved out of The Angel shortly after the album's release, partly because a lorry had run, out of control, into Dave Swarbrick's bedroom. [cite web | url = http://www.asklyrics.com/display/Fairport_Convention/Angel_Delight_Lyrics/73587.htm | title = Angel Delight lyrics | accessdate = 2008-05-19]

Musically, "Angel Delight" progressed little from its predecessors, although an appearance on Top of the Pops as a featured album contributed to its chart success; cite web | url = http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=72612 | title = Angel Delight | date = 23 March 2006 | accessdate = 2008-05-19] it reached number eight in the UK Album chart, making it the band's highest charting album in the UK. [UKChartHits|2106]

Track listing

# "Lord Marlborough" (Traditional) - 3:27
# "Sir William Gower" (Traditional) - 5:00
# "Bridge over the River Ash" [which flowed through the rear garden of The Angel - cite web | url = http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=72612 | title = Angel Delight | date = 23 March 2006 | accessdate = 2008-05-19] (Traditional) - 2:15
# "Wizard of the Worldly Game" (Nicol, Swarbrick) - 4:08
# "The Journeyman's Grace" (Swarbrick, Thompson) - 4:35
# "Angel Delight" (Mattacks, Nicol, Pegg, Swarbrick) - 4:09
# "Banks of the Sweet Primroses" (Traditional) - 4:15
# "Instrumental Medley: The Cuckoo's Nest/Hardiman the Fiddler/Papa Stoor" (Traditional) - 3:28
# "The Bonny Black Hare" (Traditional) - 3:08
# "Sickness and Diseases" (Swarbrick, Thompson) - 3:47
# "The Journeyman's Grace" (Swarbrick, Thompson) - 3:53 [CD bonus track from BBC radio session]

References