The Five Seasons
Studio album by Fairport Convention
Released	December 1990
Recorded	April - August 1990
Studio	Woodworm Studios, Barford St. Michael, Oxfordshire[1]
Genre	British folk rock
Label	New Routes
Producer	Dave Mattacks, Simon Nicol
Fairport Convention chronology
Red & Gold (1988) The Five Seasons (1990) Jewel in the Crown (1995)

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The Five Seasons is the seventeenth studio album by British folk rock band Fairport Convention.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Claudy Banks" (Traditional) - 5:53
2. "Cup of Tea!"/"A Loaf of Bread"/"Miss Monahan's" (Allcock, Traditional) - 3:16
3. "All Your Beauty" (Barry Lowe, Martin White) - 2:55
4. "Sock In It" (Dave Whetstone) - 5:29
5. "Gold" (Peter Blegvad) - 5:06

Side two

1. "Ginnie" (Huw Williams) - 4:10
2. "Mock Morris '90" (The Green Man/The Cropredy Badger/Molly On The Jetty) (Ric Sanders) - 4:53
3. "The Card Song"/"Shuffle the Pack" (Allcock, Mattacks, Nicol) - 4:26
4. "The Wounded Whale" (Archie Fisher, Traditional) - 6:43

Bonus Track on CD release

1. "Rhythm of the Time" (Dave Whetstone) - 5:52

Release history

• 1990, December: UK LP, New Routes RUE 005
• 1990, December : UK CD, New Routes RUE CD 005
• 1990, December : US CD, Rough Trade NR 005-2
• 1991, December : UK CD, Woodworm Records WRCD 019
• 1995, December : UK CD, HTD Records HTD CD 48^[3]

Personnel

Fairport Convention

• Maartin Allcock - guitars, bouzouki, mandolin, accordion, keyboards, vocals^[4]
• Ric Sanders - violin
• Dave Pegg - acoustic & bass guitars, vocals
• Dave Mattacks - drums, percussion, keyboards, harpsichord
• Simon Nicol - guitars, vocals, dobro

Technical

• Tim Matyear - engineer
• Barry Hammond with Simon Nicol and Dave Mattacks - mixing