Fairport Convention - What We Did on Our Holidays (1969)
Tracklist front / back album covers
Fairport Convention - What We Did on Our Holidays
Side one
1. "Fotheringay" 3:06
2. "Mr Lacey" 2:55
3. "Book Song" 3:13
4. "The Lord Is in This Place…How Dreadful Is This Place" (based on "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" by Blind Willie Johnson) 2:01
5. "No Man's Land" 2:32
6. "I'll Keep It with Mine" 5:56
Side two
1. "Eastern Rain" 3:36
2. "Nottamun Town" 3:12
3. "Tale in Hard Time" 3:29
4. "She Moves Through the Fair" 4:14
5. "Meet on the Ledge" 2:50
6. "End of a Holiday" 1:07
Fairport Convention Band Members / Musicians
Sandy Denny (as Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny) – vocals, acoustic & 12-string acoustic guitars, organ, piano, harpsichord
Iain Matthews – vocals, congas
Richard Thompson – electric, acoustic & 12-string acoustic guitars, piano accordion, sitar on "Book Song"[16] (uncredited), vocals
Ashley Hutchings – bass, backing vocals
Simon Nicol – electric & acoustic guitars, electric autoharp, electric dulcimer, backing vocals
Martin Lamble – drums, percussion, violin, tabla & footsteps
Bruce Lacey & his robots on "Mr. Lacey"
Claire Lowther – cello on "Book Song"
Kingsley Abbott – coins on "The Lord Is in This Place...," backing vocals on "Meet on the Ledge"
Paul Ghosh, Andrew Horvitch & Marc Ellington – backing vocals on "Meet on the Ledge"
Peter Ross – harmonica on "Throwaway Street Puzzle"
What We Did on Our Holidays (released as Fairport Convention in the United States) is the 2nd album by British band Fairport Convention, released in 1969. It was their first album to feature singer-songwriter Sandy Denny. The album also showed a move towards the folk rock for which the band became noted, including tracks later to become perennial favourites such as "Fotheringay" and the song traditionally used to close live concerts, "Meet on the Ledge".
