ONE LP PORTRAITS: MUSICIANS: C - F: Fairport Convention: Simon Nicol: Musician

{quote}Coming after his first seven albums this consolidates everything before: his absolute mastery of the guitar styles which spoke to him as he explored the music which had first inspired him to play: creole, black, gospel, country blues, rural, - edgy stuff all of it. Conversational, utterly funky and swinging, and deceptively lazy and casual but tight as a fish's arse at thirty fathoms. And delivered in an altogether new soundscape of otherness: we forget today the radical shock of the DDA recording process when you dropped your stylus on the vinyl and heard the punch and clarity of 16-bit digital tape for the first time.I don't/can't/won't dance. Fact. But between us - if there was a record make a dead man get up and dance, this is it.”Simon Nicol: Camp and Furnace, Liverpool, 27th February 2016Ry Cooder: Bop Till You Drop released 1979Fairport ConventionThe Fairports on the super site - For Folk's Sake
Simon Nicol: Musician, Ry Cooder: Bop Till You Drop

 

"Coming after his first seven albums this consolidates everything before: his absolute mastery of the guitar styles which spoke to him as he explored the music which had first inspired him to play: creole, black, gospel, country blues, rural, - edgy stuff all of it. Conversational, utterly funky and swinging, and deceptively lazy and casual but tight as a fish's arse at thirty fathoms. And delivered in an altogether new soundscape of otherness: we forget today the radical shock of the DDA recording process when you dropped your stylus on the vinyl and heard the punch and clarity of 16-bit digital tape for the first time. 

I don't/can't/won't dance. Fact. But between us - if there was a record make a dead man get up and dance, this is it.” 

Simon Nicol: Camp and Furnace, Liverpool, 27th February 2016 

Ry Cooder: Bop Till You Drop released 1979 

Fairport Convention 

The Fairports on the super site - For Folk's Sake