Trevor Lucas

Trevor Lucas was a secondary but notable figure in the British folk-rock scene of the late 1960s and 1970s, principally as a member of <a href="spotify:artist:1UjdSf7VkNH2AeAGghaSEg">Fotheringay</a> and the mid-'70s version of <a href="spotify:artist:2LIdnZDzySb04oH40be1fR">Fairport Convention</a>. Originally from Australia, he came to the UK in the mid-1960s to work on the traditional folk circuit, and made an obscure and run-of-the-mill traditional folk solo album in 1966, Overlander. From late 1967 to late 1969, the singer-guitarist was in Eclection, a little-known British folk-rock group that made recordings with Elektra.

Lucas became romantically involved with <a href="spotify:artist:2LIdnZDzySb04oH40be1fR">Fairport Convention</a> singer <a href="spotify:artist:1kYd37riIExqdm9g0juqGJ">Sandy Denny</a> in the late 1960s, and together the pair formed <a href="spotify:artist:1UjdSf7VkNH2AeAGghaSEg">Fotheringay</a>, who made a good folk-rock album in 1970. Despite the group's considerable promise, it folded after that sole LP, when <a href="spotify:artist:3D9J9nPNW1cBktx5apJq4V">Denny</a>, the biggest talent in the band by far, left for a solo career. Lucas joined <a href="spotify:artist:2LIdnZDzySb04oH40be1fR">Fairport Convention</a>, who at that point had been shorn of all their original members, in mid-1972, with <a href="spotify:artist:3D9J9nPNW1cBktx5apJq4V">Denny</a> (whom Lucas married in 1973) rejoining the band in early 1974. Both Lucas and <a href="spotify:artist:3D9J9nPNW1cBktx5apJq4V">Denny</a> left two years later, and in the interim <a href="spotify:artist:2LIdnZDzySb04oH40be1fR">Fairport</a> could hardly have been said to have been at their peak.

After <a href="spotify:artist:3D9J9nPNW1cBktx5apJq4V">Denny</a>'s death in 1978, Lucas remarried and moved back to Australia to raise his family, dying of heart failure in 1989. In addition to his work in the bands <a href="spotify:artist:1UjdSf7VkNH2AeAGghaSEg">Fotheringay</a>, Eclection, and <a href="spotify:artist:2LIdnZDzySb04oH40be1fR">Fairport Convention</a>, he also appeared as a guitar and singer on records by <a href="spotify:artist:7dtYyLTWjuZGOcweC3eD2f">the Strawbs</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5w75MoT8FfcGOMgjgrj1cz">Richard Thompson</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0DW7boyjvbaSP3OJ72sXgC">Al Stewart</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:0me2CHAdEKm5MTWHemzRk5">Stefan Grossman</a>. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi