Rosie (Fairport Convention album)

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

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