{"product_id":"full-house-4","title":"Full House","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter their 1969 album \u003cem\u003eLiege and Leif\u003c\/em\u003e paved the way, \u003cstrong\u003eFairport Convention\u003c\/strong\u003e pushed further into traditional music, led by charismatic and renowned fiddle-player Dave Swarbrick, who had joined the group in 1969 after making his name with Martin Carthy earlier in the decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVocalist Sandy Denny and bassist Ashley Hutchings left after \u003cem\u003eLiege and Leif\u003c\/em\u003e, and for the first time since the group's inception in 1967, there would be no female voice on a Fairport album. Guitarists Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol took vocal leads with Swarbrick and, with new bassist Dave Pegg joining drummer Dave Mattacks, the group made \u003cem\u003eFull House\u003c\/em\u003e, released in July 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePicking up where its predecessor left off, and again recorded with Joe Boyd at London's Sound Techniques, the album continued the standards set by their previous four albums. Four of the seven songs on \u003cem\u003eFull House\u003c\/em\u003e were adapted from traditional folk melodies, such as \"\u003cem\u003eDirty Linen\u003c\/em\u003e\" and \"\u003cem\u003eSir Patrick Spens\u003c\/em\u003e\", while of the originals, Thompson and Swarbrick's nine-minute opus \"\u003cem\u003eSloth\u003c\/em\u003e\" gave the group one of their all-time anthems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sleeve sent up their new role as ambassadors of the rustic by inventing a string of traditional British games that didn't really exist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Proper","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50543476375883,"sku":"2226400","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/image002_bf87f22b_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1728311090","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/full-house-4","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}