Rising for the Moon [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

Fairport Convention | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 15, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Universal I.S.
• ASIN: B0009A21K8
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,928 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Rising For The Moon

2. Restless

3. White Dress

4. Let It Go

5. Stranger To Himself

6. What Is True?

7. Iron Lion

8. Dawn

9. After Halloween

10. Night-Time Girl

11. One More Chance

12. Tears (Single B-Side Of "White Dress")

13. Rising For The Moon (Sandy's Original Demo)

14. Stranger To Himself (Sandy's Original Demo)

15. One More Chance (Sandy's Original Demo)

Editorial Reviews

2005 Remastered re-issue. Includes four bonus tracks: 'Tears (Single B-side Of 'White Dress'), 'Rising For The Moon' (Sandy's original demo) , 'Stranger To Himself' (Sandy's original demo) and 'One More Chance' (Sandy's original demo). Universal.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An album that should have been much better, August 17, 2005

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woburnmusicfan (Woburn, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rising for the Moon (Audio CD)

When Sandy Denny returned to Fairport Convention, the band made one last bid for stardom. Super-producer Glyn Johns (the Who, Clapton, Eagles) was brought in. And the result was a surprisingly tepid album.

Johns seems to have been going for a singer-songwriting feel. The instruments are muted, with the fantastic musicianship of guitarist Jerry Donahue and fiddler Dave Swarbrick kept under wraps, and the bass and drums playing somewhere off in the distance. Nothing will distract the listener from the underlying songs! The problem is that those songs aren't good enough to carry the burden. Sandy contributes five songs that all have strong lyrics matched with lackluster music, and she sings them with a halfhearted effort. There's just enough going on to suggest that songs like "Dawn" and Trevor Lucas's "Iron Lion" could have been memorable with livelier arrangements and production. Lucas does provide his best Fairport moment with "Restless".

The album closes with "One More Chance", an 8-minute Sandy opus that is everything the rest of the album is not. Sandy finally raises her voice and sings like SANDY DENNY. The verse and chorus both have great melodies. And then...Donahue and Swarbrick both soar in an extended instrumental. This song is one of the all-time Fairport Convention highlights. If the same approach had been used throughout the album, "Rising for the Moon" might be remembered with "Liege & Leaf" and "What We Did on Our Holidays". Instead, it's an album best suited for late at night with a glass of wine. It's background music for melancholy, not an album that commands your full attention.

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

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sadly Under-rated album, July 10, 2002

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Junglies (Morrisville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Rising for the Moon (Audio CD)

One of the stronger Fairport lineups following on from the so-called classic period, this album never received the recognition it deserved nor reached the audiience it ought to have.

Recorded in 1975, the album was overshadowed by the growing number of groups and singer-songwriters in the UK. Steeleye Span had achieved chart success and groups like Prelude were more commercially successful

While Fairport Convention had attracted much attention to the return of Sandy Denny to the fold along with two other members of Fotheringay, they had a montain to climb to regain their position at the top of the British folk rock tree. With a wide variety of songs in the best of the Fairport tradition and a long lineage of musicianship of the bands members, the album failed to achieve the commercial success which had eluded them for over four years and also failed to significantly increase the band's audience. The album also flopped in the States which did not help morale and subsequently the band split before resuming business as Fairport.

If I had to select my favourite I would go for the title track but I like them all. It is a good, solid album which I can play over and over, not just because of Sandy Denny's wonderful voice but just to hear those musicians play so well.

When is the Box set going to be released over here?

Another album to include the singing talents of Alexandra Denny is Live Convention.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars THEY BEGAN AS A FOLK /POP BAND AND THIS RETURNS TO THAT, June 15, 2000

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Scott T Mc Nally (ORLANDO, Fl USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rising for the Moon (Audio CD)

I have to say that though this is a somewhat uneven recording, it's high points are incredibly good. One More Chance is one of Sandy Denny's signature songs. The title track is also wonderfull. There seem to be two camps of Fairport fans: Those who only seem to care for their reworkings of traditional material and those who never got over their poppier side. I find there is great listening in both, but I always had and will have a preference for their work with Sandy Denny, one of the best female singers if not the best female folk singer of all time. It was she who first brought the traditional songs into the fold, but being the restless spirit that she was, wanted to keep moving with writing her own songs and interpreting the songs of others. Dylan in particular. A great balance of their songs and reworked jigs and trad material can be found on Live Convention, which was released just prior to this. That, along with this recording, is one that will always be on my playlist along with Liege And Lief