Fairport Convention, Unhalfbricking (1969)
What a revelation! My first time hearing this album was just the other day. Just last week. I have known about this album for ages, heard one or two of the tracks but never heard it all the way through. I was gifted a copy recently – and what an amazing thing to sit down with on a Sunday afternoon. Perfect Sunday Afternoon Music. (Perfect anytime too, of course). It’s not like I’ve ignored Fairport Convention either – I got to them through being a Richard Thompson fan. And that in turn made me a Sandy Denny fan. I have the records 
either side of Unhalfbricking too – but I’d never heard this one. And man – it just blew my mind on first listen. I obviously knew, in a sense, what to expect. But there’s something very special about hearing an album 20-30-40-50 years old that you have never heard before. Particularly when it really pops – still sounds special, has earned any reverence gathered. I look forward to falling right into the world of this album. Magical.
Sample Track: A Sailor’s Life
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It had the same effect on me as well. I had and loved “Liege and Lief” for years and never thought that another Fairport Convention release could dislodge it from my desert island discs. Now, I get all stressed out if I ever think that I’d have a Sophie’s Choice of picking one over the other. I still marvel that most of them were still in their teens when they made both releases. It feels like a cultural millennia ago