Fairport Unconventional

Tracklisting

Disc 1

Side 1

• 1. Meet on the ledge, (overture) Cropredy, 1990
• 2. Wings, Cropredy, 1997
• 3. If I had a ribbon bow, single, 1967
• 4. Lay down your weary tune, 1st Radio Session,'67
• 5. A Shattering Live Experience, BBC Radio session, 1969
• 6. Nottamun Town, alternative version, 1968
• 7. Si Tu Dois Partir, radio recording, 1968
• 8. Come all ye, Liege & Lief out-takes , 1969
• 9. Tam Lin, Liege & Lief out-takes , 1969
• 10. Dirty Linen, Cropredy, 1988
• 11. Staines Morris, Philadelphia Folk Fest, 1970
• 12. Journeyman's Grace, 1970
• 13. Angel delight, Cropredy, 1997
• 14. Time is near, Roger Hill/Tom Farnell lineup, 1972
• 15. Polly on the shore, live, 1973
• 16. Rising for the moon, BBC session, 1974
• 17. Reynard the Fox, TV performance, 1987
• 18. Rubber band, Simons Records, 1980
• 19. Naked Highwayman, Bottom Line, 1998
• 20. The wood and the wire, Cropredy 1999
• 21. The crowd, Woodworm, 2002
• 22. One sure thing, (excerpt) Sound Techniques, 1967 – Fairport’s first demo recording

Disc 2

• 1. Sir B McKenzie, 1976
• 2. Suzanne, 1968
• 3. Time will show the wiser, 1968
• 4. Mr Lacey, Dutch TV, 1969
• 5. Reno Nevada, French TV, 1968
• 6. Percy's song, 1968
• 7. Dear Landlord, 1968
• 8. I don't believe you, 'Nine' out-take, 1973
• 9. The deserter, BBC, 1970
• 10. Farewell to a poor man's son, BBC-TV Babbacombe Lee, 1973
• 11. Sad song, The Manor Sessions, 1972
• 12. Autopsy, 1968
• 13. Maverick Child, David Rea / Tom Farnell line-up, 1972
• 14. Fiddlestix, Australian single, 1973
• 15. It's now or never, with Steve Tilston, 2000
• 16. The lady is a tramp, BBC Top Gear, 1968
• 17. General Taylor, Live in Chicago, 1972
• 18. Accountancy Shanty, Live in Hull, 1989
• 19. A sailor's life, Southampton, 1969

Disc 3

• 1. Sir Patrick Spens, 1969
• 2. Wat Tyler, York, 1992
• 3. Flowers of the forest, London 1977
• 4. Fotheringay, Symonds on Sunday, 1969
• 5. To Althea, Cropredy 1984
• 6. Red and gold, Cropredy 1996
• 7. Lord Marlborough, El Pea, 1971
• 8. Adieu Adieu, TV performance, 1976
• 9. Here's to Tom Paine, Weston-super-mare, 1997
• 10. Bonny Bunch of Roses, Live in Australia , 1977
• 11. Breakfast in Mayfair, Sandy Denny/Simon Nicol vcls, 1973
• 12. Battle of the Somme, Troubadour, 1970
• 13. Summer before the war, BBC In Concert, 1990
• 14. Get Together, 1967
• 15. Genesis Hall, Cropredy, 1993
• 16. Jewel in the crown, Apollo 1995

Disc 4

• 1. Walk awhile, Bumpers, 1970
• 2. John Gaudie, Bottom Line, 4 Mar 1998
• 3. Hexamshire lass, Capital Radio, 1976 w Dan Ar Bras
• 4. Slip jigs and reels, Oxford Apollo, 1995
• 5. Poor Will & Jolly Hangman, Moat on the Ledge, '82
• 6. Crazy man Michael, Fairport out-take, 1969
• 7. Rosie, Melbourne Assembly Hall, 1996
• 8. Farewell farewell, Fairport rehearsal tape, 1969
• 9. Now be thankful, BBC World Service, 1970
• 10. Hiring Fair, Cropredy, 1989
• 11. Stranger to himself, UBU, 1974
• 12. Sloth, UBU, 1974
• 13. Who knows where the time goes, BBC, 1968
• 14. Matty Groves, special compiled multi-version
• 15. Meet on the ledge, BBC, 1968