| Expletive Delighted! | ||||
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| Released | August 1986 | |||
| Recorded | February, April and May 1986 | |||
| Studio | Woodworm Studios, Barford St. Michael, Oxfordshire 51°59′30″N 1°21′58″W / 51.9918°N 1.3661°W | |||
| Genre | British folk rock | |||
| Length | 35:53 | |||
| Label | Woodworm | |||
| Producer | Fairport Convention | |||
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Expletive Delighted! is a 1986 album by British folk rock band Fairport Convention, their fifteenth studio album since their debut in 1968. It is the band's only album consisting solely of instrumental tracks, despite the claim "Lyric sheet enclosed" on the album cover.[1]
Ric Sanders, who had played on some tracks on the previous album Gladys' Leap, was invited to join Fairport full-time, as was Maartin Allcock; the result, according to Dave Pegg,
"Ric and Maart were both writing stuff, composing these great instrumental pieces. I thought we should do something immediately, catch the moment. So we put out an all instrumental album, Expletive Delighted. I really wanted to show everyone just what these new chaps could do, how brilliantly they could play. ... The line-up meant we could tour again, it meant we had new material for Cropredy, it meant there was a Fairport again. So from 1986 on, Cropredy wasn't just a reunion festival any more. We had a band."[2]
This new lineup would last for the next eleven years, the most stable of all of Fairport's configurations to that point.[3]
- ^ "Expletive-Delighted - The Fairport Convention Discography Website Sponsored by Musikfolk Limited (www.musikfolk.com)". www.fcfansite.fsnet.co.uk. Archived from the original on 9 May 2008. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
- ^ "Dave Pegg recounts Fairport's history - Fairport Convention's official website". www.fairportconvention.com. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
- ^ "History: Simon Nicol writes about Fairport - Fairport Convention's official website". www.fairportconvention.com. Archived from the original on 11 February 2009. Retrieved 21 November 2009.