- Rosie (album)
Infobox Album
Name = Rosie
Type = studio
Artist =Fairport Convention
Released = February 1973
Recorded =
Genre = Folk-Rock
Length =
Label =Island Records
Producer =Trevor Lucas
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://wc07.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hifyxqy5ld6e link]
Last album = "Babbacombe Lee" (1971)
This album = "Rosie" (1973)
Next album = "Nine" (1973)"Rosie" is the eighth studio album by
folk-rock outfitFairport Convention , released in 1973.The album was the first to feature Australian singer-songwriter guitarist
Trevor Lucas and American lead guitaristJerry Donahue . Both had previously played with ex-FairportSandy Denny , to whom Lucas was married, in the short-livedFotheringay . Here they had effectively replacedSimon Nicol who had quit Fairport to join another ex-memberAshley Hutchings in The Albion Band, thus leaving the band with no original members until he rejoined in 1976.Drummer Dave Mattacks also joined the Albion Band for a while but rejoined during the making of Rosie. He only plays on four of the ten tracks; on others drums are handled alternately by Tim Donald and
Gerry Conway . Conway himself would join Fairport in 1999 and remains with them to this day.Track listing
# "Rosie" (Dave Swarbrick)
# "Matthew, Mark, Luke & John" (Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick)
# 'Knights Of The Road" (Trevor Lucas, Peter Roche)
# "Peggy's Pub" (Dave Pegg)
# "The Plainsman" (Words: Peter Roche/Music: Traditional arranged Trevor Lucas)
# "Hungarian Rhapsody" (Dave Pegg)
# "My Girl" (Dave Swarbrick)
# "Me With You" (Dave Swarbrick)
# "The Hen's March Through The Midden" (Traditional arranged Fairport Convention)
# "Furs and Feathers" (Dave Swarbrick)Personnel
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Dave Swarbrick : vocals, fiddle, viola, mandolin, acoustic guitar
*Trevor Lucas : vocals, 6 and 12-string acoustic guitars
*Jerry Donahue : guitars, backing vocals
*Dave Pegg : vocals, bass, mandolin
*Dave Mattacks : drums, percussion, pianoAdditional personnel
*Richard Thompson: electric and 12-string guitars (Track 1)
*Sandy Denny : backing vocals (Track 1)
*Linda Peters: backing vocals (Track 1)
*Gerry Conway: drums (Tracks 1, 3 & 5)
*Tim Donald: drums (Tracks 2, 6 & 7)
*Ralph McTell : acoustic guitar (Track 8)
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