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Jack Orion

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Released
  
September 1966 (UK)

Jack Orion (1966)
  
Bert and John (1966)

Release date
  
1966

Label
  
Transatlantic Records

Length
  
44:30

Artist
  
Bert Jansch

Producer
  
Bill Leader

Genre
  
Folk music

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Recorded
  
c. early summer 1966 at 5 North Villas, Camden, London

Similar
  
Bert Jansch albums, Folk music albums

Bert jansch jack orion


Jack Orion is the third album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in 1966. It contains a number of traditional songs, including the epic "Jack Orion": a ten-minute adaptation of the Child ballad "Glasgerion" which tells of a court fiddler’s attempt to seduce a countess and his servant's treachery in successfully impersonating him. A number of songs are performed with friend and fellow guitarist John Renbourn, who would later join him in the group Pentangle. "The Waggoner’s Lad" has Jansch unusually playing the banjo with Renbourn supplying the guitar part.

Contents

Bert jansch the waggoner s lad


Track listing

  1. "The Waggoner's Lad" (traditional) – 3:32
  2. "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (instrumental - Bert Jansch) – 1:45*
  3. "Jack Orion" (traditional) – 9:50
  4. "The Gardener" (traditional) – 1:40
  5. "Nottamun Town" (traditional) – 4:30
  6. "Henry Martin" (traditional) – 3:17
  7. "Blackwaterside" (traditional) – 3:49
  8. "Pretty Polly" (traditional) – 4:07
  • Not to be confused with the Ewan MacColl vocal song.

    • 1970 US and 1991 Vanguard CD track listing

    1. "The Waggoner's Lad" (traditional) – 3:32
    2. "Blackwaterside" (traditional) – 3:49
    3. "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (MacColl) – 1:45
    4. "900 Miles" (traditional) – 3:08*
    5. "The Gardener" (traditional) – 1:40
    6. "Pretty Polly" (traditional) – 4:07
    7. "Nottamun Town" (traditional) – 4:30
    8. "Henry Martin" (traditional) – 3:17
    9. "Jack Orion" (traditional) – 9:50
  • "900 Miles" from It Don't Bother Me UK release

    • Songs

    1The Waggoner’s Lad3:25
    2First Time Ever I Saw Your Face1:42
    3Jack Orion9:46

    References

    Jack Orion Wikipedia
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