Jack Orion

Infobox Album |
Name = Jack Orion
Type = Studio album
Artist = Bert Jansch


Released = September 1966 (UK)
Recorded = 5 North Villas, Camden (London); Early Summer 1966
Genre = Folk
Length = 44:30
Label = Transatlantic
Catalog no. = TRA 143
Producer = Bill Leader
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:928m967o3ep8 link]
Last album = "It Don’t Bother Me"
(1965)
This album = "Jack Orion"
(1966)
Next album = "Bert And John"
(1966)

Jack Orion is a 1966 folk album by Bert Jansch. 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.

Track listing

# "The Waggoner's Lad" (Traditional) – 3:32
# "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (Ewan MacColl) – 1:45
# "Jack Orion" (Traditional) – 9:50
# "The Gardener" (Traditional) – 1:40
# "Nottamun Town" (Traditional) – 4:30
# "Henry Martin" (Traditional) – 3:17
# "Blackwaterside" (Traditional) – 3:49
# "Pretty Polly" (Traditional) – 4:07

1970 US and 1991 Vanguard CD track listing

#"The Waggoner's Lad" (Traditional) – 3:32
#"Blackwaterside" (Traditional) – 3:49
#"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (MacColl) – 1:45
#"900 Miles" (Jansch) – 3:08*
#"The Gardener" (Traditional) – 1:40
#"Pretty Polly" (Traditional) – 4:07
#"Nottamun Town" (Traditional) – 4:30
#"Henry Martin" (Traditional) – 3:17
#"Jack Orion" (Traditional) – 9:50

"900 Miles" from "It Don't Bother Me" UK release

ee also

* Folk music