A brand new collection of vintage 19860 recordings by the late Fairport Convention and Fotheringay singer Sandy Denny, simply titled Early Home Recordings, is to be released by Earth Recordings on ...

While British folk-rock progenitor Fairport Convention was never less than mercurial — with a revolving door of band members that began with its first, self-titled, recording and continues to this day ...

When Denny joined Fairport she was a 21-year-old folk singer, rich with promise but little-known. Hutchings, at 23, was the band’s bassist and elder statesman. Fairport were taking baby steps on ...

Sometimes there’s reason to believe the hype. For instance, Fairport Convention–next to which the word “legendary” so often seems to appear–long has been hailed as the group that invented English folk ...