Fairport Convention 
The best album credited to Fairport Convention is Liege & Lief which is ranked number 991 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 1,765.
Fairport Convention is ranked number 447 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 4,183.
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- Jerry Donahue
- Dave Swarbrick
- Dave Pegg
- Martin Allcock
- Simon Nicol
- Dan Ar Bras
- Ric Sanders
- Chris Leslie
- Richard Thompson
- Sandy Denny
- Ian Matthews
- Judy Dyble
- Ashley Hutchings
- Trevor Lucas
- See also:
- Ashley Hutchings / Richard Thompson / Dave Mattacks / John Kirkpatrick / Barry Dransfield
- Richard Thompson Featuring Linda Thompson
- The Bunch
- The Albion Country Band
- Iain Matthews & The Salmon Smokers
- Sanders, Baker And Clayton
- Gordon Giltrap & Ric Sanders
- Hamilton Pool
- The Matthews Baartmans Conspiracy
- Thompson
- Hi-Fi
- Mor
- More Than A Song
- The GP's
- The Dylan Project
- Dylancentric
- Iain Matthews & Searing Quartet
- Iain Matthews & Jim Fogarty
- Plexus
- Spirits Burning
- Dave Pegg And Friends
- Gathering
- Poet And The One Man Band
- The Hellecasters
- Thieves
- Jethro Tull
- Kasabian
- Richard & Linda Thompson
- The Yardbirds
- Steeleye Span
- Trader Horne
- Matthews' Southern Comfort
- Fotheringay
- Giles, Giles & Fripp
- The Albion Band
- Richard Thompson Band
- Sandy Denny And The Strawbs
- Plainsong
- The Albion Dance Band
- Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick
- Eclection
- The Richard Thompson Acoustic Trio
- Richard Thompson & Danny Thompson
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Fairport Convention best albums
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Fairport Convention best tracks
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Fairport Convention ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Artist ratings | Avg. artist rating |
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| ! | 10/27/2023 08:57 | MaxStorm98 | 542 | 92/100 |
| ! | 10/27/2022 21:08 |  paladisiac | 1,041 | 67/100 |
| ! | 09/07/2022 07:35 |  Tamthebam | 885 | 73/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 2% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 80.7/100, a mean average of 82.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.5/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 9.9.
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Fairport Convention forum mentions
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Captain_Dude 07/06/2011 05:43 | #24017
England's answer to Jefferson Airplane. Electric folk didn't get any better than this and Richard Thompson survived the electric folk era to go on to even more essential recordings. Make sure you check out the Richard and Linda Thompson albums. They're classics.
I'm from the Beatles/Stones/Dylan generation, but the artists who sort me into a subgroup are Fairport, the Dead, and Emmylou Harris... so obviously Fairport gets a whoppin' rating from me
