Fairport Convention - What We Did on Our Holidays ( 1969 )

 

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Fotheringay"	Sandy Denny	3:06
2.	"Mr Lacey"	Ashley Hutchings	2:55
3.	"Book Song"	Iain Matthews, Richard Thompson	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)	Hutchings, Thompson, Denny	2:01
5.	"No Man's Land"	Thompson	2:32
6.	"I'll Keep It with Mine"	Bob Dylan	5:56

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Eastern Rain"	Joni Mitchell	3:36
2.	"Nottamun Town"	Traditional, arranged by Denny, Matthews, Thompson, Simon Nicol, Hutchings, Martin Lamble	3:12
3.	"Tale in Hard Time"	Thompson	3:29
4.	"She Moves Through the Fair"	Traditional, arranged by Denny, Matthews, Thompson, Nicol, Hutchings, Lamble	4:14
5.	"Meet on the Ledge"	Thompson	2:50
6.	"End of a Holiday"	Nicol	1:07

Personnel

Fairport Convention

• 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" (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

Additional personnel

• 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"