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Release Date: 15 August 2025
Label: Talking Elephant
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5028479051120
Release Date: 15 August 2025
Label: Talking Elephant
Packaging Type: Gate Fold
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5028479051113
Description
Gladys' Leap is the fourteenth studio album by Fairport Convention, released in August 1985. 40 years later and we are proud to re-release this special album on CD complete with new notes to celebrate its 40th Anniversary.
It was originally recorded in April and May 1985 at Woodworm Studios, Barford St. Michael, Oxfordshire, UK. It was produced and engineered by Simon Nicol, Dave Mattacks and Dave Pegg and the assistant engineers were Tim Matyear and Mark Powell. The album features the first contributions to a Fairport album by founding member Richard Thompson since Rosie in 1973. Thompson wrote the opening track "How Many Times" and played lead guitar on "Head in a Sack".
The title comes from Gladys Hillier, who was a postwoman for Cranham, a village near Stroud in Gloucestershire, England. As a short-cut, to save a two-mile walk, she used to jump a three feet wide brook, a tributary of Painswick Stream, on her round. In 1977 the Ordnance Survey agreed to name the spot in her honour and in 2005, when Hillier was 88, a footbridge was built across the stream (a signpost lists her period of service as 1942-1977). Fairport heard the story, and named the album in Gladys' honour.
Description
Gladys' Leap is the fourteenth studio album by Fairport Convention, released in August 1985. 40 years later and we are proud to re-release this special album complete with new notes and in special Light Blue Vinyl.
It was originally recorded in April and May 1985 at Woodworm Studios, Barford St. Michael, Oxfordshire, UK. It was produced and engineered by Simon Nicol, Dave Mattacks and Dave Pegg and the assistant engineers were Tim Matyear and Mark Powell. The album features the first contributions to a Fairport album by founding member Richard Thompson since Rosie in 1973. Thompson wrote the opening track "How Many Times" and played lead guitar on "Head in a Sack".
The title comes from Gladys Hillier, who was a postwoman for Cranham, a village near Stroud in Gloucestershire, England. As a short-cut, to save a two-mile walk, she used to jump a three feet wide brook, a tributary of Painswick Stream, on her round. In 1977 the Ordnance Survey agreed to name the spot in her honour and in 2005, when Hillier was 88, a footbridge was built across the stream (a signpost lists her period of service as 1942-1977). Fairport heard the story, and named the album in Gladys' honour.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Fairport Convention
Various Artists
Paul Yusuf McCormack
Odette Michell
Mark Radcliffe & David Boardman
Ashley Hutchings
Green Diesel
Steve Tilston
Various Artists
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
