Rosie (Fairport Convention album)

Rosie is a 1973 album by British folk rock band Fairport Convention, their eighth album since their debut in 1968.

Rosie
Studio album by Fairport Convention
Released	February 1973
Recorded	July–August 1972
Studio	Sound Techniques, London (except tracks 3 and 5: 1971)
Genre	British folk rock
Label	Island (UK) A&M (US)
Producer	Trevor Lucas
Fairport Convention chronology
"Babbacombe" Lee (1971) Rosie (1973) Nine (1973)

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The album was the first to include Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist Trevor Lucas and American lead guitarist Jerry Donahue. Both had previously played with ex-Fairport Sandy Denny, whom Lucas later married, in the short-lived Fotheringay. Here they had effectively replaced Simon Nicol who had quit Fairport to join another ex-member Ashley Hutchings in The Albion Band, thus leaving the band with no founding members until he rejoined in 1976.

Drummer Dave Mattacks also joined the Albion Band for a while but rejoined during the making of Rosie. He only plays on four of the ten tracks; on others, drums are handled alternately by Tim Donald and Gerry Conway. Like Donahue and Lucas, Conway was also ex-Fotheringay, and would himself join Fairport in 1998, becoming the band's drummer until his retirement in 2022

Track listing

Side one

1. "Rosie" (Dave Swarbrick)
2. "Matthew, Mark, Luke & John" (Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick)
3. "Knights of the Road" (Trevor Lucas, Peter Roche)
4. "Peggy's Pub" (Dave Pegg)
5. "The Plainsman" (words: Peter Roche; music: Traditional, arranged by Trevor Lucas)

Side two

1. "Hungarian Rhapsody" (Dave Pegg)
2. "My Girl" (Dave Swarbrick)
3. "Me with You" (Dave Swarbrick)
4. "The Hens March Through the Midden & The Four Poster Bed" (Traditional, arranged by Fairport Convention)
5. "Furs and Feathers" (Dave Swarbrick)

A 2004 Island issue, in addition to the previous tracks, featured also the following bonus tracks recorded live on 23 April 1973 at The Howff, Primrose Hill in London:

1. "Matthew, Mark, Luke & John" (Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick)
2. "The Hens March Through the Midden & The Four Poster Bed" (Traditional, arranged by Fairport Convention)
3. "Rosie" (remix)
4. "The Claw" (Jerry Reed)
5. "Furs and Feathers" (Dave Swarbrick)

Personnel

Fairport Convention

• Dave Swarbrick – vocals, fiddle, viola, mandolin (4), acoustic guitar (7)
• Trevor Lucas – vocals, 6 and 12-string acoustic guitars
• Jerry Donahue – guitars, backing vocals
• Dave Pegg – vocals, bass, mandolin (4)
• Dave Mattacks – drums (4,9,10), percussion (8), piano (6)

Additional personnel

• Richard Thompson – electric and 12-string guitars ("Rosie")
• Sandy Denny – backing vocals ("Rosie")
• Linda Peters – backing vocals ("Rosie")
• Gerry Conway – drums ("Rosie", "Knights of the Road" and "The Plainsman")
• Tim Donald – drums ("Matthew, Mark, Luke & John", "Hungarian Rhapsody" and "My Girl") (born Timothy Donald, 29 September 1946, Bristol, Somerset)
• Ralph McTell – acoustic guitar ("Me With You")

External links

• Official audio: "Rosie" on YouTube