''The Five Seasons'' is the seventeenth studio album by

British folk rock British folk rock is a form of folk rock which developed in the United Kingdom from the mid 1960s, and was at its most significant in the 1970s. Though the merging of folk and rock music came from several sources, it is widely regarded that the ...

band

Fairport Convention Fairport Convention are an English British folk rock, folk rock band, formed in 1967 by guitarists Richard Thompson (musician), Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol, bassist Ashley Hutchings and drummer Shaun Frater (with Frater replaced by Marti ...

Track listing

;Side one # "Claudy Banks" (

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) - 5:53 # "Cup of Tea!"/"A Loaf of Bread"/"Miss Monahan's" (Allcock, Traditional) - 3:16 # "All Your Beauty" (Barry Lowe, Martin White) - 2:55 # "Sock In It" (Dave Whetstone) - 5:29 # "Gold" ( Peter Blegvad) - 5:06 ;Side two # "Ginnie" (Huw Williams) - 4:10 # "Mock Morris '90" (The Green Man/The Cropredy Badger/Molly On The Jetty) ( Ric Sanders) - 4:53 # "The Card Song"/"Shuffle the Pack" (Allcock, Mattacks, Nicol) - 4:26 # "The Wounded Whale" ( Archie Fisher, Traditional) - 6:43 ; Bonus Track on CD release # "Rhythm of the Time" (Dave Whetstone) - 5:52

Release history

*1990, December: UK LP, New Routes RUE 005 *1990, December : UK CD, New Routes RUE CD 005 *1990, December : US CD, Rough Trade NR 005-2 *1991, December : UK CD, Woodworm Records WRCD 019 *1995, December : UK CD, HTD Records HTD CD 48

Personnel

;Fairport Convention * Maartin Allcock - guitars,

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mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

, keyboards, vocals * Ric Sanders - violin * Dave Pegg - acoustic & bass guitars, vocals * Dave Mattacks - drums, percussion, keyboards,

harpsichord A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard, keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which in turn raises a mechanism with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic that plucks one ...

* Simon Nicol - guitars, vocals,

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;Technical * Tim Matyear - engineer * Barry Hammond with Simon Nicol and Dave Mattacks - mixing

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External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Five Seasons 1990 albums Fairport Convention albums