Originally Posted by
Barry
However it didn't continue to remain that way: in my opinion Swabrick, on subsequent albums, 'hijacked' the sound and Fairport simply 'turned the handle of the folk rock machine'. I didn't buy any of their later albums and through my annoyance, rechristened Swabrick with a less than polite homeonym! (He later redeemed himself, in my eyes, with his playing on 'Quiet Joys of Brotherhood' on one of Sandy Denny's solo titles.)
I prefer the earlier 'What We Did on Our Holidays' and 'Unhalfbricking', but we are discussing 'Liege and Lief'. Enjoyed it again, but perhaps not quite as much as I used to. Would like to score it 3.5/5, but I can't, so 3/5.