Fairpoint Convention

Don't neglect Davey Graham in this crowd.Extraordinarily gifted guitarist.Hey Roxy don't get on me about spelling of Davey/Davy I have records featuring both spellings.Loved this music growing up,continue to enjoy it's timeless qualities in the modern era.Saw Fairport,Steeleye Span,Sandy Denny, Fotheringay Richard & Linda Thompson and have many wonderful memories of these shows.

wasn't Richard Thompson's "did she jump" (or did she fall) about Sandy Denny? Still listen to Pentangle & Unhalfbricking regularly.

I won't get on you about your spelling Casey. In fact, I want to thank everyone for reminding me of the folk/baroque (love that name) genre. I was never deeply into it at the time, but always enjoyed the limited exposure that I had, and now I will start collecting some of these old treasures.
There were certainly some great singers as well as instrumentalists in these bands.

Another artist is Ian (or Iain) Matthews who sang with Fairport Convention and then had a solo career (Matthew's Southern Comfort, etc.). I bought an LP, "If You See Thro' My Eyes" fairly recently at a Half Price Books in Austin. It was a reissue and sounds great, really one of those records you just missed at the time. Richard Thompson plays on it as well.

Love Fairport and I've been privileged to call the current band members (Pegg, Nicol, Sanders, Leslie, Conway) good friends. While the studio recordings over the last 15 years aren't groundbreaking in the way the earliest catalog is, for musicianship and production they are my favorite.