| Tipplers Tales | ||||
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| Released | May 1978 | |||
| Recorded | February 1978 | |||
| Studio | Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Oxfordshire. | |||
| Genre | British folk rock | |||
| Length | 36:26 | |||
| Label | Vertigo | |||
| Producer | Fairport Convention | |||
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Tipplers Tales is a 1978 album by Fairport Convention, the band's thirteenth studio album since their debut in 1968. Recorded in only ten days,[1] it was the last album the band recorded for Vertigo. Simon Nicol later wrote
"We secured a deal with Vertigo, the one that ended up with them paying us not to make records. It seemed a novelty, like that Marx Brothers line: "How much for you NOT to rehearse?" "Oh, you can't afford it." We did Bonny Bunch and Tipplers Tales then didn't make the other four contracted albums"[2]
Dave Pegg later said
"It wasn't a great deal of money. It was about £30,000. It was the first time we had ever made money out of music. We got like £7,000 each. It was more money than we'd ever had in our lives. This was back in '78 and it enabled us to split up."[1]
Following the release of Tipplers Tales, Fairport Convention did not record for the following seven years until the Gladys' Leap album in 1985.[3][4]
Several of the traditional folk songs had previously been recorded by A. L. Lloyd accompanied by Dave Swarbrick. The version of "John Barleycorn" here is close to the version recorded by Traffic, as Steve Winwood had been taught the song by the Watersons.[5] The tune is based on "Wir Pflügen" by Johann Schultz, better known as "We Plough the Fields and Scatter", an old English harvest festival hymn.
- ^ a b "Innerviews: Fairport Convention – Come All Ye – Dave Pegg". innerviews.org. Retrieved 18 November 2009.
- ^ "History: Simon Nicol writes about Fairport – Fairport Convention's official website". fairportconvention.com. Archived from the original on 11 February 2009. Retrieved 18 November 2009.
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- ^ "John Barleycorn". Reinhard Zierke. Retrieved 2 June 2017.