by Bert Jansch
Release Date: 24 February 2023
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Sanctuary
£6.00
Bert Jansch Jack Orion Limited Vinyl LP
Overview:
· Jansch released two albums simultaneously in August 1966. ‘Bert And John’ was the first and recorded more or less concurrently. ‘Jack Orion’ saw Jansch shift away from jazz and blues inspired improvised instrumentals and his own songwriting to present an album that radically challenged existing interpretations of traditional folk music.
· The selection included his classic treatment of ‘Black Waterside’, the astonishing ‘The Waggoner’s Lad’ where Jansch’s banjo is thrillingly offset by John Renbourn’s chopping guitar and the epic title track.
· The album was the result of Jansch working closely with Anne Briggs who taught him many of the songs and as Renbourn once commented: “for a while his playing mirrored her singing.”
· This superb edition is the fourth in a series of all seven of Bert Jansch’s Transatlantic Records recordings, all of which have been remastered from the original master tapes for the first time ever.
Featured Tracks:
1. The Waggoner's Lad
2. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
3. Jack Orion
4. The Gardener
5. Nottamun Town
6. Henry Martin
7. Blackwaterside
8. Pretty Polly
Release Date: 17 August 2018
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Earth Recordings
£14.99
Release Date: 26 January 2018
Format: Boxed Set Vinyl
Label: Earth Records
£39.99
Release Date: 02 June 2016
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Stamford Audio
£19.99
