Rosie (album)

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

Track listing

 * Side one
 * 1) "Rosie" (Dave Swarbrick)
 * 2) "Matthew, Mark, Luke & John" (Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick)
 * 3) "Knights of the Road" (Trevor Lucas, Peter Roche)
 * 4) "Peggy's Pub" (Dave Pegg)
 * 5) "The Plainsman" (words: Peter Roche; music: Traditional, arranged by Trevor Lucas)


 * Side two
 * 1) "Hungarian Rhapsody" (Dave Pegg)
 * 2) "My Girl" (Dave Swarbrick)
 * 3) "Me with You" (Dave Swarbrick)
 * 4) "The Hens March Through the Midden & The Four Poster Bed" (Traditional, arranged by Fairport Convention)
 * 5) "Furs and Feathers" (Dave Swarbrick)

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 in London:


 * 1) "Matthew, Mark, Luke & John" (Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick)
 * 2) "The Hens March Through the Midden & The Four Poster Bed" (Traditional, arranged by Fairport Convention)
 * 3) "Rosie" (remix)
 * 4) "The Claw" (Jerry Reed)
 * 5) "Furs and Feathers" (Dave Swarbrick)

Personnel

 * Fairport Convention
 * Dave Swarbrick - vocals, fiddle, viola, mandolin (4), acoustic guitar (7)
 * Trevor Lucas - vocals, 6 and 12-string acoustic guitars
 * Jerry Donahue - guitars, backing vocals
 * Dave Pegg - vocals, bass, mandolin (4)
 * Dave Mattacks - drums (4,9,10), percussion (8), piano (6)


 * Additional personnel
 * Richard Thompson - electric and 12-string guitars ("Rosie")
 * Sandy Denny - backing vocals ("Rosie")
 * Linda Peters - backing vocals ("Rosie")
 * Gerry Conway - drums ("Rosie", "Knights of the Road" and "The Plainsman")
 * Tim Donald - drums ("Matthew, Mark, Luke & John", "Hungarian Rhapsody" and "My Girl") (born Timothy Donald, 29 September 1946, Bristol, Somerset)
 * Ralph McTell - acoustic guitar ("Me With You")