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Nine

Fairport Convention: Nine (Island IMCD 154)

Nine
Fairport Convention

Island ILPS 9246 (LP, UK, 1973)
Island IMCD 154 (CD, UK, 1992)
Island IMCD 310 (CD with bonus tracks, UK, August 2005)

Recorded at Sound Techniques, London;
Produced by Trevor Lucas / John Wood / Fairport;
Engineered by John Wood

Musicians

Jerry Donahue: electric and acoustic guitars;
Trevor Lucas: acoustic guitars, vocals;
Dave Mattacks: drums, percussion, keyboards, bass guitar;
Dave Pegg: bass guitar, mandolin, vocals;
Dave Swarbrick: violin, viola, mandolin, vocals;

Tracks

LP Side 1

  1. The Hexhamshire Lass (Roud 3182) (2.31)
  2. Polly on the Shore (Roud 811) (4.56)
  3. The Brilliancy Medley & Cherokee Shuffle (3.56)
  4. To Althea From Prison (5.11)
  5. Tokyo (2.52)

LP Side 2

  1. Bring ’Em Down (5.59)
  2. William (3.26)
  3. Pleasure & Pain (5.03)
  4. Possibly Parsons Green (4.42)

2005 CD Bonus Tracks

  1. The Devil in the Kitchen (Fiddlestix) (2.49)
    Australian single
  2. George Jackson (2.49)
  3. Pleasure & Pain (4.59)
  4. Six Days on the Road (3.44)
    Tracks 11-13 recorded live at The Howff (London) on 23 April 1973

Session Out-Take

  1. I Don’t Believe You
    released on Fairport unConventioNal

Track 1, 3 trad. arr Fairport Convention;
Track 2 music Dave Pegg, lyrics trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick / Trevor Lucas;
Track 3a Eck Robinson;
Track 3b Tommy Jackson;
Track 4 Richard Lovelace, Dave Swarbrick;
Track 5 Jerry Donahue;
Track 6 Trevor Lucas;
Tracks 7, 8, 12 Dave Swarbrick, Trevor Lucas;
Track 9 Trevor Lucas, Pete Roche;
Track 14 Bob Dylan