{"id":5647,"date":"2012-04-24T07:40:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5647"},"modified":"2012-04-24T07:40:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:40:33","slug":"fairport-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/04\/fairport-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"FAIRPORT CONVENTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5648\" title=\"FAIRPORT-CONVENTION-M-Review-MarApr2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FAIRPORT-CONVENTION-M-Review-MarApr2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FAIRPORT-CONVENTION-M-Review-MarApr2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FAIRPORT-CONVENTION-M-Review-MarApr2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>F<\/strong><strong>AIRPORT CONVENTION<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>By Popular Request<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Matty Grooves]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0Fairport Convention walks a musical tightrope between pleasing recent converts and serving the diehard fans that still champion the days when its earlier lineups pioneered British folk-rock. Consider <em>By Popular Request<\/em> something akin to a perfect balancing act, a 45th anniversary celebration that reconsiders classic songs without adulterating them. It\u2019d be easy to credit the fresh energy to virtuoso fiddler Ric Sanders and multi-instrumentalist Chris Leslie. It\u2019s Leslie, after all, whose banjo chops meld perfectly with Sanders\u2019 flawless playing on \u201cMatty Groves,\u201d and anyone who has seen the two onstage can attest to their musical partnership. But that would be unfair, because founding guitarist Simon Nicol, drummer Gerry Conway and bassist Dave Pegg masterfully play these songs with unbridled enthusiasm. <em>By Popular Request <\/em>presents the best of Fairport Convention, then and now. \u2013Nancy Dunham<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRPORT CONVENTION By Popular Request [Matty Grooves] \u00a0Fairport Convention walks a musical tightrope between pleasing recent converts and serving the diehard fans that still champion the days when its earlier lineups pioneered British folk-rock. Consider By Popular Request something akin to a perfect balancing act, a 45th anniversary celebration that reconsiders classic songs without adulterating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,3374,3373,3303,3375],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5649,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions\/5649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}