Rosie (album)

Rosie
Studio album by Fairport Convention
Released	February 1973
Recorded	July–August 1972
Studio	Sound Techniques, London (except tracks 3 and 5: 1971)
Genre	British folk rock
Label	Island (UK) A&M (US)
Producer	Trevor Lucas
Fairport Convention chronology
"Babbacombe" Lee (1971) Rosie (1973) Nine (1973)

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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