What's Spinning, Vol. 40

Sandy Denny's debut.

Sometimes you just need the most amazing female vocalist of the British Folk Rock era from the 60s and 70s.

Fairport Convention is one of those groups I found through my mom, much like a lot of my musical tastes. They truly are something special and can really lighten any day.

This album was technically their second album but the first release in the US. It has amazing song after amazing song on it.

This was the first appearance of Sandy Denny who replaced Judy Dyble and that change was all the difference the band needed.

Fotheringay is leads off the album with Sandy Denny belting out some powerhouse vocals that are unrivaled.

Then there is the haunting, The Lord is in This Place, which was based on the song, Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground by Blind Willie Johnson.

On Side B they finish up with, She Moves Through the Fair and it surely sets up the band to become one of the most popular groups in England at the time and puts them on the musical map here in the States.

The album was so good, Colin Larkin (who wrote the Encyclopedia of Modern Music), listed at 281 on his list of the best 1000 albums ever produced.

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Fairport Convention

A&M Records, 1969

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