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
Contents
Track listing
Side one
"Rosie" (Dave Swarbrick)
"Matthew, Mark, Luke & John" (Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick)
"Knights of the Road" (Trevor Lucas, Peter Roche)
"Peggy's Pub" (Dave Pegg)
"The Plainsman" (words: Peter Roche; music: Traditional, arranged by Trevor Lucas)
Side two
"Hungarian Rhapsody" (Dave Pegg)
"My Girl" (Dave Swarbrick)
"Me with You" (Dave Swarbrick)
"The Hens March Through the Midden & The Four Poster Bed" (Traditional, arranged by Fairport Convention)
"Furs and Feathers" (Dave Swarbrick)
A 2004 Island issue, in addition to the previous tracks, featured also the following bonus tracks recorded live on 23 April 1973 at The Howff, Primrose Hill in London:
"Matthew, Mark, Luke & John" (Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick)
"The Hens March Through the Midden & The Four Poster Bed" (Traditional, arranged by Fairport Convention)
"Rosie" (remix)
"The Claw" (Jerry Reed)
"Furs and Feathers" (Dave Swarbrick)
Personnel
Fairport Convention
Dave Swarbrick – vocals, fiddle, viola, mandolin (4), acoustic guitar (7)
Trevor Lucas – vocals, 6 and 12-string acoustic guitars
Jerry Donahue – guitars, backing vocals
Dave Pegg – vocals, bass, mandolin (4)
Dave Mattacks – drums (4,9,10), percussion (8), piano (6)
Additional personnel
Richard Thompson – electric and 12-string guitars ("Rosie")
Sandy Denny – backing vocals ("Rosie")
Linda Peters – backing vocals ("Rosie")
Gerry Conway – drums ("Rosie", "Knights of the Road" and "The Plainsman")
Tim Donald – drums ("Matthew, Mark, Luke & John", "Hungarian Rhapsody" and "My Girl") (born Timothy Donald, 29 September 1946, Bristol, Somerset)
Ralph McTell – acoustic guitar ("Me With You")