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 Fairport Convention's
Contractual Obligation
Gottle O Geer
"Fairport"
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{Historic note about the title of this review: There is actually an album called Monty Python's Contractual Obligation.
Apparently, the Pythons owed one more album on the contract they'd signed
with EMI.}
Yup -- Fairport owed the label (Island, i believe)
an album and converted what was apparently supposed to be a Swarbrick "solo"
album to a "Fairport" (no "Convention") album.
Yup -- it's a collection of mostly second-rank pieces. (A Major Exception
being "Sandy's Song" ("Take Away the Load"), written by the late Sandy Denny.)
But, ya know -- when i hear people slamming Billy Joel for how "derivative"
of REM's "It's the End of the World" his "We Didn't Start the Fire" is, i
think of the fact that REM are known Thompson/Fairport fans, and i think
of the wonderful cut called "Limey's Lament" on this album, and i chuckle
quietly.
(The cover art on this album, BTW, is a parody of/homage to
Norman Rockwell's great Saturday Evening Post covers; the jester's face is a
caricature of Swarb.) |
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