Tipplers Tales [Import, Original recording remastered]

Fairport Convention | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 26, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Universal I.S.
• ASIN: B000MNNRXW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #281,065 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ye Mariners All

2. Three Drunken Maidens

3. Jack O'rion

4. Reynard The Fox

5. Lady Of Pleasure

6. Bankruptured

7. Widow Of Westmorland

8. Hair Of The Dogma

9. As Bitme

10. John Barleycorn

Editorial Reviews

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fairport's most traditional (although electric) album, February 18, 2008

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Matthew Schwarz (Bridgewater, nj United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tipplers Tales (Audio CD)

Of the 8 songs on this disc (tracks 8 & 9 are really just an extended intro for track 10 in my mind) I think 6 are actually traditional songs. Even their most trad. centered albums of the past ("Liege & Lief", "Angel Delight", "Full House", and "Bonny Bunch of Roses") were all about 50% original or contemporary songs. And, although Fairport have written some fine songs ("Crazy Man Michael" and "Fotheringay" are 2 of the most beautiful songs ever written), I really like to hear them perform traditional stuff.

This album has a slightly more laid-back feel at times to the preceeding "Bonny Bunch of Roses" with the new (acoustic) "Lady of Pleasure" and the trad. "Three Drunken Maidens" bringing a relaxed, pleasant feel to some of it. The overall feel of drunken revelry pervades most of the lyrics and music, and it's a fun album.

In one of it's more serious tracks, it also contains a contender for FC's best trad. ballad arrangement: the extended "Jack O'rion" - where Swarbrick interjects fiddle instrumentals at various points in the song to illustrate the lyrics with different feels.

Swarb brings a very British folky feel to the vocals, while the oft-overlooked Simon Nichol puts in the occaisional rich vocal, too (his fine vocals are beautifully featured on most of the post-reunion Fairport of the mid-80s to the present).

A fine example of mostly-traditional British folk in a rock context.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great classic, August 21, 2007

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Dye "sciencebabe" (Northern California) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Tipplers Tales (Audio CD)

Not my very favorite Fairport Convention CD, but I do like it. It has some very fun songs.