Fairport Convention: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Mark Cooper, MOJO, April 1995
TWO FAIRPORTS STILL STICK IN my mind from the late '60s, early '70s. The first was London's answer to Jefferson Airplane, furiously eclectic and frequently daring, the second became to the fiddle what Ian Anderson's Jethro Tull was to the flute.
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