With Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny helped to birth electrified English folk-roc... With the exception of some tentative, fledgling recordings made before she had found her wings as a singer and ...

Although she only spent 18 months with the band Sandy Denny remains, for many, the abiding voice of Fairport Convention. During 1969 alone, Sandy and Fairport released three extraordinarily ...

Fortunately, that didn’t happen. She likens her inhabiting of Sandy Denny’s songs to finding a fabulous vintage sheepskin coat that just fits perfectly the minute you try it on, as if it was made for ...

Yes they probably invented folk rock but also, on their landmark third album, Fairport Convention, presented a view of England that has now been lost... one of violent division along lines of class ...