The one hundred sixty-third album: #163 Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
The two albums of Fairport Convention - this and the upcoming Liege and Lief - are set to have advanced British folk rock and have put it on the map for most people. There's something welcome about the back to basics charm with these, using enough electric guitars to feel bulkier. Sandy Denny's vocals help a lot with that, lending it that lighter sound you get with female vocalists.
The album alternates a bit, with Cajun Woman being a straight rock song - perhaps the only one that feels purely rock, but others straying closer to pure folk, like Percy's Song, a Bob Dylan-penned song that stays close to those origins. It's well performed with some beautiful songs, but the folk isn't quite what I'm into.