Festival Cropredy 2002 [Import]

Festival Cropredy 2002 [Import]

Track Listings

1. Time Will Show The Wiser

2. One Sure Thing

3. Jack O Diamonds

4. It Takes A Lot To Laugh

5. Ill Keep It With Mine

6. Nottamun Town

7. Cajun Woman

8. Million Dollar Bash

9. Tam Lin

10. Who Knows Where The Time Goes

11. Red And Gold

12. The Widow Of Westmorland

13. Neils Morris

14. The Journeymans Grace

15. Walk Awhile

16. Doctor Of Physick

17. You Aint Going Nowhere

18. Poor Will And The Jolly Hangman

19. Sloth

20. Rising For The Moon

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
2003 reissue of 2002 live release recorded at The Cropredy Festival on August 9th & 10th of 2002. Artists include Richard Thompson, Ashley Hutchings, Ian Matthews, & many more. Disc one is titled 'The Early Years - Friday's Set' (which features 11 tracks), & disc two 'Leaving Liege - The Saturday Set', (which features 13 tracks). Talking Elephant.

Tracks:

Time Will Show The Wiser
One Sure Thing
Jack O Diamonds
It Takes A Lot To Laugh
Ill Keep It With Mine
Nottamun Town
Cajun Woman
Million Dollar Bash
Tam Lin
Who Knows Where The Time Goes
Red And Gold
The Widow Of Westmorland
Neils Morris
The Journeymans Grace
Walk Awhile
Doctor Of Physick
You Aint Going Nowhere
Poor Will And The Jolly Hangman
Sloth
Rising For The Moon
John The Gun
Rosie
The Naked Hangman
Meet On The Ledge

Album Description

2003 reissue of 2002 live release recorded at The Cropredy Festival on August 9th & 10th of 2002. Artists include Richard Thompson, Ashley Hutchings, Ian Matthews, & many more. Disc one is titled 'The Early Years - Friday's Set' (which features 11 tracks), & disc two 'Leaving Liege - The Saturday Set', (which features 13 tracks). Talking Elephant.

Customer Reviews:

Good live set, but get "The Cropredy Box" first.......2003-12-11

This 2-CD live album is culled from two nights of performances at Fairport Convention's 2002 Cropredy Festival, commemorating the band's 35th anniversary. Past and present band members take turns on stage, playing songs from their respective eras. Fairport fans will find this a very entertaining album. I recommend it, but only if you already have "The Cropredy Box", a 3-CD box recorded at the 1997 festival. That one is a must-have, and as I write this, it's being sold by Amazon at a similar price.

All but one song on the first CD is from the Friday set, which covered the early years, the Judy Dyble-Sandy Denny v.1.0 years. It starts off badly, with a sloppy "Time Will Show the Wiser" and lackluster "One Sure Thing", but picks up from there. The second CD covers the Saturday set, from "Full House" to the present, and features more consistent performances. There are five Dylan covers, including a couple Fairport hasn't previously recorded. In a shocker, "Matty Groves" isn't included (the 7 live versions I already have will have to see me through somehow). But standards "Meet on the Ledge", "Walk Awhile", "Sloth", "Rosie", and "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" are here, along with some great songs I hadn't heard live before, like "Tam Lin" and "Doctor of Physick". Nigel Schofield provides extensive liner notes about the weekend, but he may have made a mistake in listing all the songs played -- fans can whine about which ones they wish had been put on the CDs. Personally, I would have loved to have "Tale in Hard Time" and "Polly on the Shore".

The ravages of time are starting to show on the band members. Violinist Dave Swarbrick is no longer able to sing due to health problems (Chris Leslie sang all his parts), and Judy Dyble's voice sounds terrible. Vikki Clayton, who sings Sandy Denny's parts, keeps cracking herself up; it's annoying to hear her giggle during the ominous "John the Gun". "Sloth" features great solos from Swarbrick, bassist Dave Pegg, and guitarist Jerry Donahue. Richard Thompson remains a legend, with shining performances on "Jack o'Diamonds" and "Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman". Schofield raves three times in the liner notes about how Leslie singing Swarb's "Rosie" was the high point of the weekend; it's good, but not a particular highlight. Swarb's warm voice is missed. Fairport's recent years are represented only by "Red and Gold" (taken slightly faster than usual, it's the best version I've heard) and "The Naked Highwayman". The only instrumental is a medley of Morris dancing tunes played on two concertinas, two violins, and a buzzy bass clarinet that sounds like a kazoo.

(1=poor 2=mediocre 3=pretty good 4=very good 5=phenomenal)

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