What They Did On Their Holidays: Fairport Convention at Farley House, Summer 1969
Rob Young, 'Electric Eden' (Faber), August 2010
NOTE: This is an excerpt from Rob Young's superb new folk opus Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music, published in August 2010 by Faber & Faber and hailed by Simon Reynolds as "a stunning achievement". Here, Young documents Fairport Convention getting it together for Liege and Lief at Farley Chamberlayne in Hampshire.
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