Live at the BBC (Fairport Convention album)


Live at the BBC is a compilation album by English folk-rock band Fairport Convention released in 2007. It includes tracks recorded for the BBC for various radio programmes between 1968 and 1974 and consists of four CDs in a fold-out package with a fifty-page booklet including song lyrics and numerous contemporary photographs.

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Close the Door Lightly When You Go" – 2:57
  2. "I Don't Know Where I Stand" – 3:36
  3. "Some Sweet Day" – 2:16
  4. "You Never Wanted Me" – 3:15
  5. "Nottamun Town" – 3:35
  6. "Marcie" – 3:34
  7. "Night in the City" – 3:05
  8. "Jack O'Diamonds" – 3:12
  9. "Gone, Gone, Gone" – 1:59
  10. "Suzanne" – 5:25
  11. "If It Feels Good, You Know It Can't Be Wrong" – 3:12
  12. "Eastern Rain" – 3:10
  13. "Fotheringay" – 3:09
  14. "I Still Miss Someone" – 2:23
  15. "Bird on a Wire" – 3:27
  16. "Tried So Hard" – 2:54
  17. "Reno, Nevada" – 2:23
  18. "Book Song" – 3:05
  19. "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" – 4:14

    Disc two

  20. "You're Gonna Need My Help" – 3:56
  21. "Fotheringay" – 2:59
  22. "Shattering Live Experience" – 3:23
  23. "Cajun Woman" – 2:44
  24. "Autopsy" – 4:24
  25. "Si Tu Dois Partir" – 2:25
  26. "Percy's Song" – 5:25
  27. "Reynardine" – 4:19
  28. "Tam Lin" – 7:46
  29. "Sir Patrick Spens" – 3:44
  30. "Medley: The Lark in the Morning/Rakish Paddy/Foxhunter's Jig/Toss the Feathers" – 4:12
  31. "The Lady Is a Tramp" – 2:11
  32. "Walk Awhile" – 4:00
  33. "Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman" – 5:33
  34. "Doctor of Physick" – 3:37

    Disc three

  35. "Sir Patrick Spens" – 3:32
  36. "The Bonny Bunch of Roses" – 10:53
  37. "Dirty Linen" – 4:15
  38. "Now Be Thankful" – 2:24
  39. "The Journeyman's Grace" – 3:56
  40. "Now Be Thankful" – 3:23
  41. "Tokyo" – 2:37
  42. "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John" – 5:29
  43. "Possibly Parsons Green" – 4:27
  44. "Rosie" – 4:02
  45. "John the Gun" – 5:03
  46. "Fiddlestix" – 2:47
  47. "Rising for the Moon" – 4:16
  48. "Down in the Flood" – 3:27

    Disc four

  49. "Let's Get Together" – 2:48
  50. "One Sure Thing" – 3:35
  51. "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" – 3:37
  52. "Chelsea Morning" – 3:01
  53. "Violets of Dawn" – 3:53
  54. "If " – 2:35
  55. "Time Will Show the Wiser" – 2:59
  56. "If I Had a Ribbon Bow" – 2:34
  57. "Meet on the Ledge" – 2:48
  58. "Light My Fire" – 1:20
  59. "Flatback Caper" – 6:23
  60. "Open the Door, Richard" – 3:04
  61. "The Deserter" – 3:54
  62. "The Hangman's Reel" – 3:23
  63. "Tam Lin" – 8:03
  64. "Sir William Gower" – 4:47
  65. "Banks of the Sweet Primroses" – 4:09
  66. "Sickness and Diseases" – 3:41
  67. "Bridge over the River Ash" – 2:09
  68. "Lord Marlborough" – 3:21
  69. "Angel Delight" – 4:04

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