Fotheringay is the first track from Fairport Convention's second album What We Did On Our Holidays. It is a gentle piece of British folk music that sounds old, from medieval times or the baroque era. It tells the haunting story of a woman being held captive in a castle, her days filled with loneliness. You can picture the castle out in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by forest, shrouded in mist, moss-covered stones scattered about on the rugged terrain, with no one else around for miles. Sandy Denny sings with such amazing pathos and beauty, I cannot imagine anyone else singing this song. The gently picked guitars and sotto voce harmonies really capture this lonely scene. 'Tommorrow...she will be far away...' I always hope this is because she will be rescued, but I believe she will be dead, either by her own hand or by execution.
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