The Five Seasons
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The Five Seasons is a 1990 album by folk rock
Folk rock
Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...

 band 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...

.

Side one

  1. "Claudy Banks" (Traditional
    Traditional music
    Traditional music is the term increasingly used for folk music that is not contemporary folk music. More on this is at the terminology section of the World music article...

    ) - 5:53
  2. "Cup of Tea!"/"A Load of Bread"/"Miss Monahan's" (Allcock, Traditional) - 3:16
  3. "All Your Beauty" (Barry Lowe, Martin White) - 2:55
  4. "Sock In It" (Dave Whetstone) - 5:29
  5. "Gold" (Peter Blegvad
    Peter Blegvad
    Peter Blegvad is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and cartoonist. He was a founding member of the avant-pop band Slapp Happy, which later merged briefly with Henry Cow, and has released many solo and collaborative albums...

    ) - 5:06

Side two

  1. "Ginnie" (Huw Williams) - 4:10
  2. "Mock Morris '90" (The Green Man/The Cropredy Badger/Molly On The Jetty) (Ric Sanders
    Ric Sanders
    Richard 'Ric' Sanders is a British violinist who has played in jazz-rock, folk rock, electric folk and folk groups, including Soft Machine and Fairport Convention.-Biography:...

    ) - 4:53
  3. "The Card Song"/"Shuffle the Pack" (Allcock, Mattacks, Nicol) - 4:26
  4. "The Wounded Whale" (Archie Fisher
    Archie Fisher
    Archie Fisher MBE is a Scottish folk singer and song writer.-The early years:Archie Fisher was born in Glasgow on 23 October 1939 into a large singing family. His sister Cilla Fisher is also a professional singer, as was his late sister Ray. In 1960 he moved to Edinburgh and appeared regularly at...

    , Traditional) - 6:43


Bonus Track on CD release
  1. "Rhythm of the Time" (Dave Whetstone) - 5:52

Release history

  • 1990, December : UK CD, New Routes RUE CD 005
  • 1990, December : US CD, Rough Trade NR 005-2
  • 1991, December : UK CD, Woodworm Records WRCD 019
  • 1995, December : UK CD, HTD Records HTD CD 48

Personnel

Fairport Convention:
  • Maartin Allcock
    Maartin Allcock
    Maartin Allcock , also known as Martin Allcock, is a multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer.-Biography:...

     : guitars, bouzouki
    Bouzouki
    The bouzouki , is a musical instrument with Greek origin in the lute family. A mainstay of modern Greek music, the front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with a plectrum and has a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but...

    , mandolin
    Mandolin
    A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

    , accordion
    Accordion
    The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

    , keyoards, vocals
  • Ric Sanders
    Ric Sanders
    Richard 'Ric' Sanders is a British violinist who has played in jazz-rock, folk rock, electric folk and folk groups, including Soft Machine and Fairport Convention.-Biography:...

     : violin
  • 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...

     : acoustic & bass guitars, vocals
  • 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, keyboards, harpsichord
    Harpsichord
    A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...

  • 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...

     : guitars, vocals, dobro
    Dobro
    Dobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar...


Additional personnel:
  • Tim Matyear : engineer
  • Barry Hammond with Simon Nicol and Dave Mattacks : mixing
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