Rosie (album)
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Rosie is the eighth studio album by folk-rock outfit Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention are an English folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement...

, released in 1973.

The album was the first to feature Australian singer-songwriter guitarist Trevor Lucas
Trevor Lucas
Trevor George Lucas was an influential folk artist, a member of Fairport Convention and one of the founders of Fotheringay...

 and American lead guitarist Jerry Donahue
Jerry Donahue
Jerry Donahue is an American guitarist and producer primarily known for his work in the British folk rock scene as a member of Fotheringay and Fairport Convention as well as being a member of the rock guitar trio The Hellecasters.-Biography:Donahue was born in New York, the son of big band...

. Both had previously played with ex-Fairport Sandy Denny
Sandy Denny
Sandy Denny , born Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny, was an English singer and songwriter, perhaps best known as the lead singer for the folk rock band Fairport Convention...

, to whom Lucas was married, in the short-lived Fotheringay
Fotheringay
Fotheringay was a short-lived British folk rock group, formed in 1970 by singer Sandy Denny on her departure from Fairport Convention. The band drew its name from her 1968 composition "Fotheringay" about Fotheringhay Castle, in which Mary, Queen of Scots had been imprisoned...

. Here they had effectively replaced Simon Nicol
Simon Nicol
Simon John Breckenridge Nicol is a guitarist, singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He was a founder member of British folk rock, or electric folk group Fairport Convention and is the only founding member still in the band...

 who had quit Fairport to join another ex-member Ashley Hutchings
Ashley Hutchings
Ashley Stephen Hutchings is an English bassist, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, band leader, writer and record producer. He was a founder member of three of the most noteworthy English folk-rock bands in the history of the genre; Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and The Albion Band...

 in The Albion Band
Albion Country Band
The Albion Band, also known as The Albion Country Band and The Albion Dance Band, were an English electric folk band, brought together and led by musician Ashley Hutchings...

, thus leaving the band with no original 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
Gerry Conway (musician)
Gerald Conway is an English folk and rock drummer/percussionist, best known for having performed with the backing band for Cat Stevens in the 1970s, Jethro Tull during the 1980s, and currently a member of Fairport Convention as well as his side projects...

. Like Donahue and Lucas, Conway was also ex-Fotheringay, and would himself join Fairport in 1999; he remains with them to this day.

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 Hen's March Through the Midden" (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:
  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

  • Dave Swarbrick
    Dave Swarbrick
    Dave Swarbrick is an English folk musician and singer-songwriter. He has been described by Ashley Hutchings as 'the most influential [British] fiddle player bar none' and his style has been copied or developed by almost every British, and many World folk violin players that have followed him...

    : vocals, fiddle, viola, mandolin, acoustic guitar
  • Trevor Lucas
    Trevor Lucas
    Trevor George Lucas was an influential folk artist, a member of Fairport Convention and one of the founders of Fotheringay...

    : vocals, 6 and 12-string acoustic guitars
  • Jerry Donahue
    Jerry Donahue
    Jerry Donahue is an American guitarist and producer primarily known for his work in the British folk rock scene as a member of Fotheringay and Fairport Convention as well as being a member of the rock guitar trio The Hellecasters.-Biography:Donahue was born in New York, the son of big band...

    : guitars, backing vocals
  • Dave Pegg
    Dave Pegg
    Dave Pegg is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer, arguably most visible as a bass guitarist. He is the longest-serving member of the pre-eminent electric folk band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of important folk and rock groups including The Ian Campbell...

    : vocals, bass, mandolin
  • Dave Mattacks
    Dave Mattacks
    Dave Mattacks is a rock and folk drummer. Best known for his work with Fairport Convention, Mattacks has also worked both as a session musician, and as a performance artist...

    : drums, percussion, piano

Additional personnel

  • Richard Thompson: electric and 12-string guitars ("Rosie")
  • Sandy Denny
    Sandy Denny
    Sandy Denny , born Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny, was an English singer and songwriter, perhaps best known as the lead singer for the folk rock band Fairport Convention...

    : backing vocals ("Rosie")
  • Linda Peters
    Linda Thompson (singer)
    Linda Thompson is a British singer. Born Linda Pettifer in Hackney, Thompson became one of the most recognised names—and voices—in the British folk rock movement of the 1970s and 1980s, in collaboration with her former husband and fellow British folk rock musician, guitarist Richard...

    : backing vocals ("Rosie")
  • Gerry Conway
    Gerry Conway (musician)
    Gerald Conway is an English folk and rock drummer/percussionist, best known for having performed with the backing band for Cat Stevens in the 1970s, Jethro Tull during the 1980s, and currently a member of Fairport Convention as well as his side projects...

    : drums ("Rosie", "Knights of the Road", "The Plainsman")
  • Tim Donald: drums ("Matthew, Mark, Luke & John", "Hungarina Rhapsody", "My Girl") (born Timothy Donald, 29 September 1946, Bristol
    Bristol
    Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...

    , Somerset
    Somerset
    The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

    )
  • Ralph McTell
    Ralph McTell
    Ralph McTell is an English singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s....

    : acoustic guitar ("Me With You")
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