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Biography
Infobox album | | Name = Jack Orion| Type = Studio album| Artist = Bert Jansch | Cover = Jack Orion 2.jpg| Released = September 1966 ( United Kingdom|UK )| Recorded = c. early summer 1966 at 5 North Villas, Camden, London| Genre = Folk music|Folk | Length = 44:30| Label = Transatlantic Records|Transatlantic | Catalog no. = TRA 143| Producer = Bill Leader | Last album = Lucky Thirteen (Bert Jansch album)|Lucky Thirteen (1965) || This album = Jack Orion (1966) || Next album = Bert and John (1966) |Album ratings| rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = Rating|3|5Allmusic|class=album|id=r96441|pure_url=yes link| noprose = yes Jack Orion is the third album by Scotland|Scottish Folk (music)|folk musician Bert Jansch , released in 1966. It contains a number of Traditional music|traditional songs, including the epic "Jack Orion": a ten-minute adaptation of the Child ballad " Glasgerion " which tells of a court fiddlers attempt to seduce a countess and his servant's treachery in successfully impersonating him. A number of songs are performed with friend and fellow guitar ist John Renbourn , who would later join him in the group Pentangle (band)|Pentangle . "The Waggoners Lad" has Jansch unusually playing the banjo with Renbourn supplying the guitar part.
Track listing
# " The Waggoner's Lad " (traditional) 3:32 # " The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face " ( Ewan MacColl ) 1:45 # " Glasgerion|Jack Orion " (traditional) 9:50 # " The Gardener (song)|The Gardener " (traditional) 1:40 # " Nottamun Town " (traditional) 4:30 # " Henry Martin (song)|Henry Martin " (traditional) 3:17 # " Down by Blackwaterside|Blackwaterside " (traditional) 3:49 # " Pretty Polly (ballad)|Pretty Polly " (traditional) 4:07
"900 Miles" from '' It Don't Bother Me (album)|It Don't Bother Me UK release
See also
Folk music
Bert Jansch Category:1966 albums Category:Bert Jansch albums Category:English-language albums Category:Transatlantic Records albums Category:Albums produced by Bill Leader
