Lucky The Man

Infobox Album |
Name = Lucky The Man
Type = Album
Artist = Wizz Jones


Released = 2001
Recorded = 1998 to 2000
Genre = Folk/Folk rock
Length = 46 minutes 10 seconds
Label = Scenescof (USA), Hux
Producer = Wizz Jones, Andy le Vien, Charles Reynolds
Last album = Through the Fingers (2001)
This album = Lucky The Man (2001)
Next album = Young Fashioned Ways (2004)Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = "Alternative cover (extended reissue on Hux Records)"
Type = studio


Lower caption = Cover for "Lucky the Man" (extended reissue) |

"Lucky The Man" is the 2001 studio album by the noted and influential British Folk guitarist, singer and songwriter Wizz Jones. The album was re-released on CD in 2007, with additional tracks, on the Hux label; this issue comes with a 12 page booklet including extensive notes, personal comments from Wizz on each of the bonus tracks, plus rare photographs from Jones' personal archive.

Track listing

#"Weeping Willow Blues (Blind Boy Fuller)"
#"Sermonette (Nat and Julian Adderley)"
#"Lucky the Man (Wizz Jones)"
#"Paris (Clive Palmer, arr. Wizz Jones)"
#"Omie Wise (trad, arr. Wizz Jones)"
#"Mountain Rain (Archie Fisher)"
#"In Stormy Weather (Al Jones)"
#"Another Summertime (Wizz Jones)"
#"Lullaby of Battersea (Wizz Jones)"
#"Roving Cowboy (Ballad of Dan Moody) (Mike Smith)"
#"Funny (But I Still Love You) (Ray Charles)"
#"Blues Run the Game (Jackson C. Frank)"
#"Would You Like to Take a Walk? (Mort Dixon/Billy Rode/Harry Warren"

Additional tracks on 2007 CD release

14. "About A Spoonful" (Mance Lipscomb)
15. "Dark Eyed Gypsies" (trad. arr. Jones)
16. "Moving On Song" (Ewan MacColl)
17. "Planet Without A Plan" (Wizz Jones)
18. "Sugar For Sugar" (Richard Rabbit Brown)†

† "with Ramblin' Jack Elliott, previously unissued"

Personnel

*Wizz Jones - acoustic guitar, lead vocals
*John Renbourn - guitar, vocals
*Clive Palmer - 5 string banjo
*Jacqui McShee - vocals
*Gary Ricard - Godin electric guitar, vocals
*Gerry Conway - percussion
*Bernd Rest - Santa Cruz acoustic guitar
*Simeon Jones - harmonica, tenor saxophone
*Martin Wheatley - National Tricone tenor guitar' Martin mahogony ukelele
*Ramblin' Jack Elliott - guitar, vocals (2007 issue only)

Label details

2001 issue

*Label = Scenescof (USA)
*Catalogue # = SCOFCD1009 (CD); SCOFLP1009 (limited edition vinyl LP)

2007 issue

* Label: [http://www.huxrecords.com/cdsales.htm Hux Records]
* Catalogue # = HUX094
* ASIN: B000UUHOCW

Production

*Producers: Wizz Jones, Andy le Vien, Charles Reynolds
*Recording Engineer: Andy le Vien
*Mixing: unknown
*Photography: Dave Peabody, Robert Wilbraham, Charles Reynolds, Simeon Jones
*Liner Notes: unknown