Rosie | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Fairport Convention |
Cover: | Rosie (album).jpg |
Released: | February 1973 |
Recorded: | July–August 1972 |
Studio: | Sound Techniques, London (except tracks 3 and 5: 1971) |
Genre: | British folk rock |
Producer: | Trevor Lucas |
Prev Title: | "Babbacombe" Lee |
Prev Year: | 1971 |
Next Title: | Nine |
Next Year: | 1973 |
Rosie is a 1973 album by British folk rock band Fairport Convention, their eighth album since their debut in 1968.
The album was the first to include Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist Trevor Lucas and American lead guitarist Jerry Donahue. Both had previously played with ex-Fairport Sandy Denny, whom Lucas later married, in the short-lived Fotheringay. Here they had effectively replaced Simon Nicol who had quit Fairport to join another ex-member Ashley Hutchings in The Albion Band, thus leaving the band with no founding members until he rejoined in 1976.
Drummer Dave Mattacks also joined the Albion Band for a while but rejoined during the making of Rosie. He only plays on four of the ten tracks; on others, drums are handled alternately by Tim Donald and Gerry Conway. Like Donahue and Lucas, Conway was also ex-Fotheringay, and would himself join Fairport in 1998, becoming the band's drummer until his retirement in 2022
A 2004 Island issue, in addition to the previous tracks, featured also the following bonus tracks recorded live on 23 April 1973 at The Howff, Primrose Hill in London: