Quotes About Fairport

Ashley Hutchings has been beating the bounds of English traditional music ever since. When he first heard Shirley and Dolly Collins's Anthems in Eden, just after quitting Fairport back in 1969, he broke down in body-shaking sobs; the suite finally unlocked and articulated all that he loved about English music. 'It evokes the countryside and it evokes the healing … I imagine it defined the whole of the rest of my career.

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Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.