I'm one of those sad pensioners who not only bought Liege and Lief when it came out, but also heard/saw Fairport in concert at the Royal Festival Hall in 1969, and it's still one of my alltime favourites. I suspect the reason I still love it is because I first heard it as a teenager - and because, while still a young, precocious and arrogant singer myself, I used to divide female singers into two categories:- the ones I loved to listen to and the ones who made me wish it was me singing the song instead. Sandy Denny was and still is always in the former category. And she was also great because she could switch compellingly between trad and self-penned (as can Banjiman's missus, whom I'd also put in the former category).

Kitty