Fiddlestix Cover FIDDLESTIX - The Best Of Fairport 1972-1984 (CD) October 1998
TRACKS:
The Devil In The Kitchen (Pipe Major W. Ross / Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 2'49"
Sir Patrick Spens (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 3'28"
Banks Of The Sweet Primroses (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 4'37"
The Plainsman (Music: Trad. Arr. Trevor Lucas / Words: Peter Roche) 3'20"
The Hexhamshire Lass (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 2'31"
Polly On The Shore (Music - Dave Pegg : Words - Trad. Arr. Dave Swarbrick / Trevor Lucas) 4'56"
Days Of '49 (Bob Dylan) 6'36"
Possibly Parsons Green (Music - Trevor Lucas : Words -Trevor Lucas / Peter Roche) 3'43"
Down In The Flood (Bob Dylan) 3'23"
Rising For The Moon (Sandy Denny) 4'08"
White Dress (Dave Swarbrick) 3'44"
The Eynsham Poacher (Trad. Arr. Dave Pegg) 2'25"
Adieu Adieu (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 2'30"
Three Drunken Maidens (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 2'39"
Reynard The Fox (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 2'59"
The Widow Of Westmorland's Daughter (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) / Random Jig (James Hill) 3'18"
Close To The Wind (Stuart Marson) 4'44"
It Suits Me Well (Sandy Denny) 5'11"
Jenny's Chickens / The Mason's Apron (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention)

8'20"
Notes:
  • Track 1 is the A-Side of the Australian only 7" (Island K-5402)
  • Tracks 2 & 3 are from " House Full" (Hannibal HNBL 1319 / HNCD 1319)
  • Track 4 is from " Rosie" (Island ILPS 9208 / IMCD 152)
  • Tracks 5 & 6 are from " Nine" (Island ILPS 9246 / IMCD 154)
  • Track 7 is from " Trevor & Sandy - Together Again [The Attic Tracks Vol. 4]" (FOFC 6) and was recorded at The Sydney Opera House in January 1974
  • Track 8 in this abridged form has only previously been released as the B-Side of the Australian only 7" (Island K-5402)
  • Track 9 is from " Live Convention" (Island ILPS 9285 / IMCD 95)
  • Tracks 10 & 11 are from " Rising For The Moon" (Island ILPS 9313 / IMCD 155)
  • Tracks 12 & 13 are from " The Bonny Bunch Of Roses" (Vertigo 9102 015 / [CD] 512 9882 [with " Tipplers Tales" ])
  • Tracks 14, 15 & 16 are from " Tipplers Tales" (Vertigo 9102 022 / [CD] BGO BGOCD72, later as Vertigo 512 988-2 [with " The Bonny Bunch Of Roses" ])
  • Track 17 is from the LP " Close To The Wind" by Dave Swarbrick and Simon Nicol (Woodworm Records WR006 / [CD] as part of " Close To The White Bear" (Woodworm WRCD 028)
  • Track 18 is from the LP " Smiddyburn" by Dave Swarbrick (but with the rest of the Fairport Convention " Full House" line-up supporting) (LP LOGO 1029 / [CD] Essential ESMCD 434 (with " Flittin'" (UK). Raven RCVD 54 (Australia)
  • Track 19 is previously unreleased and is from a BBC recording in late 1972 from the Howff Folk Club in London
ISSUE
AUSTRALIA Raven RVCD 47 (October 1998)
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