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Fairport Convention: Fairport Still On Course At 40

j. poet, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 2006

FAIRPORT CONVENTION kicked the British folk revival into high gear in 1969 when they released Liege and Lief, their first album with Sandy Denny as lead singer. England's folk revival had been going on for a while, but Liege and Lief proved folk music could be pop music.

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