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The 35th Anniversary 4 CD Box Set of music by Fairport Convention
$74.99

The press info from Free Reed Records:

Fairport's Official 35th birthday boxed-set

Rare, Live and Classic Fairport Convention -FRQCD-35

comprising four themed CDs - 148 Page Book - definitive 'Family Tree' - Cropredy Souvenir Booklet - 75 digitally-remastered tracks - (over 95% unavailable!) - Over 5 hours of Music

CD1: FAIRPORT - A HISTORY -A chronological overview of the band's career with singles, key moments, live tracks and rare versions of songs that tell their complete story

CD2: RAREPORT CONVENTION - A collection of hard-to-find and unreleased material including B-sides, private material, 'lost' sessions, Live tracks, radio & TV tracks

CD3: A FAIRPORT HISTORY - The Fairport songs telling epic tales from British history

CD4: CLASSIC CONVENTION - The core Fairport repertoire, with mostly non-standard and unreleased versions This is the first in-depth anthology of Fairport Convention's music and 35-year career, from their earliest demo-tape to their latest CD!

Music from every Fairport line-up - including those never released
Legendary "lost" recordings: Babbacombe Lee TV special, 1st performance of "Sailor's Life", the Manor Sessions etc..
Out-takes and alternate takes from all key albums
Music selected from over 1,500 tracks, from hundreds of rare and unreleased sources
The set includes over 5 hours of music, almost every track a rarity! Of the set’s 75 tracks: almost all are deleted or impossible-to-find, even via collectors' tapes and fan bootlegs; - and 73 tracks are available on CD for the first time!
The full extent of Fairport's 35-year career is covered and the set includes --
4 individually-cased and bookletted CDs in luxury long-box format
a generous 148+ page booklet!! With discography, source and cover versions, alternate recordings, Nigel Schofield biography, track-by-track analysis, band history, many interviews, listening lists, and a Fairport rare picture archive
The definitive Pete Frame "Family Tree" poster of Fairport's entire career to date
A souvenir 'Cropredy Chronicles' booklet, with every Poster featured, and with set-lists, embarrassing pictures and 'my first Cropredy' guest & fan reminiscences
Full Woodworm and Free Reed Revival Masters CD catalogues
A copy of the Carthy 60th Birthday Concert Programme (in first 2000 sold)

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