Unavailable for many years, this classic Fairport album released in 1986 marking the solid beginnings of the now legendary Cropredy Festival. Features two bonus live tracks.
Though their most famous albums were over a decade past by the late ’80s, Fairport Convention was still releasing albums that were good enough to convert new listeners. Red & Gold is a case in point, an assured and enjoyable album of the band’s trademark mix of English folk and rock. Simon Nicol’s vocal on the title cut is worth the price of the album by itself; it’s as sure and passionate a track as he’s ever cut, a sorrowful account of a great battle as seen by a peasant farmer who doesn’t understand why it’s all happening. In fact, the songs…

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