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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.
My ex-wife and i dubbed this album (as this
review is titled) "Fairport Convention's
Contractual Obligation"
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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