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Fairport Convention – "Babbacombe" Lee (VG/VG) – LP, UK
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"Babbacombe" Lee is an LP by Fairport Convention released on the Island Records label.
About this album
Babbacombe Lee is one of Fairport Convention’s boldest statements, a 1971 folk-rock concept album built around the true story of John “Babbacombe” Lee. Rather than simply drawing on traditional British folk, the group turns the case into a dramatic narrative about class, fate and public obsession. Coming after the band’s pivotal early-70s lineup changes, the album showed Fairport Convention expanding their sound while keeping their roots in English balladry and storytelling. Its theatrical structure and historical focus helped cement the record as a distinctive entry in British folk rock, and a key example of the band’s willingness to turn local history into serious, album-length drama.
Genre: Folk
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Artist: Fairport ConventionLabel: Island Records – ILPS.9176Format: LP, Album, ReissueUnits: 1Country: UKGenre: FolkStyle: Folk Rock
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A1 John'S Reflections On His Boyhood, His Introduction To Miss Keynes And The Glen, His Restlessness, And His Struggles With His Family, Finally Successful, To Join The Navy.
A2 This Was The Happiest Period Of His Life. All Looked Set Fair For A Career Until He Was Stricken With Sickness And Invalided Out Of His Chosen Niche In Life. Reluctantly And Unhappily He Turned To A Number Of Mental Occupations And Finally Returned To The Service Of Miss Keynes.
A3 Tragedy Now Strikes Hard. The World'S Imagination Is Caught By The Brutal Senselessness Of The Apparent Criminal Who Slays His Kind Old Mistress
B1 John Was Hardly More Than A Bewildered Observer At His Own Trial, Not Being Allowed To Say More Than A Few Words. The Tides Of Fate Wash Him To The Condemned Cell Where He Waits Three Sad Weeks For His Last Night On Earth.
B2 When It Comes, He Cannot Sleep, But When He Does, A Strange, Prophetic Dream Comes To Him, And Helps Him To Bear The Strain Of His Next Day'S Ordeal As Scaffold And It'S Crew Try In Vain Three Times To Take His Life