title: Rosie (album)
text: # Rosie (album)
  
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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
  
  ## 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 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")
  