Bert Jansch - Jack Orion
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Artist: Bert JanschEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2001-08-21
Music Label: Castle Music UK
Soundtracks:
- Waggoner's Lad
- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
- Jack Orion
- The Gardener
- Nottamun Town
- Henry Martin
- Blackwaterside
- Pretty Polly
Music reviews of Jack Orion
Music Review: Bert Jansch (and John Renbourn) play traditional folk songs
Rating: 4 Stars
"Jack Orion" was Bert Jansch's third solo album, recorded in the early summer of 1966, and the first on which he played traditional folk songs rather than mostly original compositions. Jansch plays guitar, banjo and piano on the album, with John Renbourn also showing up to play guitar on half of the tracks (1, 3, 6 and 8). The two had just finished doing an album together and would, of course, eventually end up playing their dueling guitars for the group Pentangle, one of the premier British folk groups of the Sixties along with Fairport Convention (or whichever group had Sandy Denny singing lead vocals).
The title track is 9:46 long and one of those times when Jansch's vocals get in the way of enjoying his guitar playing, which is always the chief attraction on his albums. That is why the instrumental tracks, "The Waggoner's Lad" and "Henry Martin," are my favorite on this 1966 album. The most familiar songs are the instrumental take on "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," which you might need a moment to recognize (I think he improves the tune nicely), "Nottamun Town," which is where Bob Dylan got the melody for "Masters of War," and "Blackwaterside," which was transformed by Jimmy Page into "Black Mountain Side" on Led Zeppelin's debut album.
I find "Jack Orion" the album to be a second tier Jansch album, which still makes it worth listening (if you are not totally captivated by the title track it is hard to rate it otherwise). The more I listen to his work the more I start to think that I hear him doing something I have heard before, but that never turns out to be the case. But what you keep coming back to is how Jansch is one of the best guitar players you have ever heard and you will enjoy pretty much anything he plays. Word from the U.K. is that Jansch is taking a break from live performances for the first half of 2005 in order to concentrate on a new album, which is certainly welcome news. It is good to know there will be yet another Bert Jansch album to track down in the future.
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Description of Jack Orion
UK reissue of the influential British folk artist's 1966 album, remastered from the original tapes. Eight tracks including, 'The Waggoner's Lad', 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' & 'The Gardener'. Packaged in a standard jewel case in a slipcase.Folk CDs
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