"Babbacombe" Lee

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Album de Fairport Convention
Sortie	novembre 1971
Enregistré	août-septembre 1971; studios Sound Techniques (Londres)
Durée	41:20
Genre	folk rock
Producteur	John Wood (en) et Simon Nicol (en)
Label	Island
Classement	195e (États-Unis)

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Sortie novembre 1971

Enregistré août-septembre 1971
studios Sound Techniques (Londres)

Durée 41:20

Genre folk rock

"Babbacombe" Lee est le septième album studio du groupe de folk rock britannique Fairport Convention. Il est sorti en 1971 sur le label Island Records.

Il s'agit d'un album-concept qui raconte l'histoire de John Babbacombe Lee, un homme condamné pour meurtre en 1885, mais qui échappe à la peine de mort après que trois tentatives de le pendre ont échoué.

L'album est enregistré par le même quatuor que son prédécesseur Angel Delight. C'est la première fois dans l'histoire de Fairport Convention qu'une formation du groupe reste inchangée suffisamment longtemps pour enregistrer deux albums. Simon Nicol (en), dernier membre fondateur encore présent, quitte le groupe peu après.

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Face 1
N^o	Titre	Durée
1.	John's reflection on his boyhood, his introduction to Miss Keyes and The Glen, his restlessness, and his struggles with his family, finally successful, to join the navy. This was the happiest period in his life. All looked set fair for a career until he was stricken with sickness and invalided out of his chosen niche in life. Reluctantly and unhappily he turned to a number of menial occupations and finally returned to the services of Miss Keyes. Tragedy now strikes hard. The world's imagination is caught by the brutal senselessness of the apparent criminal who slays his kind old mistress.	20:28

Face 2
N^o	Titre	Durée
2.	John was hardly more than a bewildered observer at his own trial, not being allowed to say more than a few words. The tides of fate wash him to the condemned cell where he waits three sad weeks for his last night on earth. When it comes, he cannot sleep, but when he does, a strange, prophetic dream comes to him, and helps him to bear the strain of his next day's ordeal as scaffold and its crew try in vain three times to take his life.	20:52

CD (2004)
N^o	Titre	Durée
1.	The Verdict	0:28
2.	Little Did I Think	2:19
3.	I Was Sixteen (Part 1)	1:29
4.	John My Son	0:44
5.	I Was Sixteen (Part 2)	1:17
6.	St Ninian's Isle / Trumpet Hornpipe	1:14
7.	Sailors Alphabet	5:50
8.	John Lee	3:04
9.	Newspaper Reading	0:46
10.	Breakfast in Mayfair	3:09
11.	Trial Song	3:55
12.	Cell Song	3:35
13.	The Time Is Near	2:31
14.	Dream Song	5:24
15.	Wake Up John (Hanging Song)	5:15
16.	Farewell to a Poor Man's Son (avec Jerry Donahue)	4:55
17.	Breakfast in Mayfair (avec Jerry Donahue et Sandy Denny)	3:59

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Albums en concert	Fairport Live Convention Live at the L.A. Troubadour Farewell, Farewell Moat on the Ledge: Live at Broughton Castle, August '81 House Full Heyday From Past Archives Live at the BBC Off the Desk
Singles	If I Had a Ribbon Bow (en) Meet on the Ledge (en)
Articles connexes	Fairport's Cropredy Convention (en)

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