RENBOURN , JOHN

Folk - rock

John Renbourn: Unpentangled – The Sixties Albums, 6CD Boxset

TRACKLIST

CD ONE
DORRIS HENDERSON & JOHN RENBOURN – THERE YOU GO!

(Columbia SX 6001, Release February 1966)

1. SALLY FREE AND EASY
2. SINGLE GIRL
3. RIBBON BOW
4. COTTON EYED JOE
5. MR TAMBOURINE MAN
6. MIST ON THE MOUNTAIN
7. THE LAG'S SONG
8. AMERICAN JAIL SONG
9. THE WATER IS WIDE
10. SOMETHING LONESOME
11. SONG (FALLING STAR)
12. WINTER IS GONE
13. STRANGE LULLABY
14. YOU'RE GONNA NEED SOMEBODY ON YOUR BOND
15. ONE MORNING IN MAY
16. A BANJO TUNE (ALIAS DARLING COREY)
17. GOING TO MEMPHIS
BONUS TRACKS
18. THE LEAVES ARE GREEN (ALIAS LEAVES THAT ARE GREEN)
19. THE HANGMAN

CD TWO
JOHN RENBOURN – JOHN RENBOURN

(Transatlantic TRA135, Released March 1966)

1. JUDY
2. BETH'S BLUES
3. SONG
4. DOWN ON THE BARGE
5. JOHN HENRY
6. PLAINSONG
7. LOUISIANA BLUES
8. BLUE BONES
9. TRAIN TUNE
10. CANDY MAN
11. THE WILDEST PIG IN CAPTIVITY
12. NATIONAL SEVEN
13. MOTHERLESS CHILDREN
14. WINTER IS GONE
15. NOAH AND RABBIT
BONUS TRACKS
16. THE WILDEST PIG IN CAPTIVITY (ALTERNATIVE VERSION)
17. CAN'T KEEP FROM CRYING
18. BLUES RUN THE GAME
19. LUCKY THIRTEEN

CD THREE
BERT JANSCH & JOHN RENBOURN – BERT AND JOHN

(Transatlantic TRA 144, Released September 1966)

1. EAST WIND
2. PIANO TUNE
3. GOODBYE PORK PIE HAT
4. SOHO
5. TIC-TOCATIVE
6. ORLANDO
7. RED'S FAVOURITE
8. NO EXIT
9. ALONG THE WAY
10. THE TIME HAS COME
11. STEPPING STONES
12. AFTER THE DANCE
BONUS TRACK
13. THE WAGGONER'S LAD

CD FOUR
JOHN RENBOURN – ANOTHER MONDAY

(Transatlantic TRA 149, Released November 1966)

1. ANOTHER MONDAY
2. LADYE NOTHING'S TOY PUFFE
3. I KNOW MY BABE
4. WALTZ
5. LOST LOVER BLUES
6. ONE FOR WILLIAM
7. BUFFALO
8. SUGAR BABE
9. DEBBIE ANNE
10. CAN'T KEEP FROM CRYING
11. DAY AT THE SEASIDE
12. NOBODY'S FAULT BUT MINE

CD FIVE
DORRIS HENDERSON –WATCH THE STARS

(Fontana STL 5385, Released February 1967)

1. WHEN YOU HEAR THEM CUCKOOS HOLLERIN'
2. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME
3. 30 DAYS IN JAIL
4. NO MORE MY LORD
5. WATCH THE STARS
6. THERE'S ANGER IN THIS LAND
7. MOSAIC PATTERNS
8. TOMORROW IS A LONG TIME
9. FOR LOVIN' ME
10. COME UP HORSEY
11. GOD BLESS THE CHILD
12. THE TIME HAS COME
13. POEMS OF SOLITUDE
14. LONELY MOOD
15. GONNA TELL MY LORD
BONUS TRACK
16. MESSAGE TO PRETTY

CD SIX
JOHN RENBOURN –SIR JOHN ALOT OF MERRIE NGLANDES MUSYK THYNG & YE GRENE KNYGHTE

(Transatlantic TRA 167, Released June 1968)

1. THE EARLE OF SALISBURY
2. THE TREES THEY DO GROW HIGH
3. LADY GOES TO CHURCH
4. MORGANA
5. TRANSFUSION
6. FORTY-EIGHT
7. MY DEAR BOY
8. WHITE FISHES
9. SWEET POTATO
10. SEVEN UP
BONUS TRACKS
11. THE EARLE OF SALISBURY
(ALTERNATIVE VERSION)
12. TRANSFUSION
(ALTERNATIVE VERSION)
13. FORTY-EIGHT
(ALTERNATIVE VERSION)

Musicians :

Acoustic Guitar – Bert Jansch(tracks: CD3-1 to CD3-13)

Bass – Danny Thompson (tracks: CD5-1 to CD5-15)

Clarinet – Jennifer de Montforte-Jones (tracks: CD4-6)

Finger Cymbals, Drums [African Drums], Glockenspiel – Terry Cox (tracks: CD6-1 to CD6-13)

Flute – Ray Warleigh (tracks: CD6-1 to CD6-13)

Guitar – Tim Walker (2) (tracks: CD5-2)

Guitar, Backing Vocals – John Renbourn

Vocals – Jacqui McShee (tracks: CD4-5, CD4-10, CD4-12)

Vocals, Autoharp – Dorris Henderson (tracks: CD1-1 to CD1-19, CD5-1 to CD5-16)

Bonus Tracks
CD1 18 &19 Columbia Single DB 7567 Released May 1965
CD2 16-18 Album outtakes
CD2 19 from Bert Jansch album 'It Don't Bother Me'
CD3 13 From Bert Jansch album 'Jack Orion'
CD5 16 Fontana Single TF 811 Released March 1967
CD6 11-13 Album outtakes

Long acknowledged as one of the greatest and most influential acoustic guitarists to emerge from the British folk scene, the late John Renbourn is best known to the wider world for his membership of Pentangle, the genre-busting band that he was instrumental in bringing together in 1967.

Pentangle's recordings are widely available, most recently with Cherry Red's 2017 highly-acclaimed box set Pentangle: The Albums.

However, Renbourn recorded extensively both before and during the band's early genesis, with a trio of solo albums joined by two vital collaborations with American-born folk singer Dorris Henderson as well as "Bert And John", his joint album with Bert Jansch in 1966.

Housed in a clamshell box that boasts replica album sleeves, some very rare photos and a new essay on the man, the 6-CD set Unpentangled anthologises that essential but often overlooked body of early work.

The set also contains a clutch of bonus tracks from the same period (including a marvellous psychedelic folk rendition of the Love song 'Message To Pretty') to shine the solo spotlight on a man that folk club organiser and future ZigZag founder Pete Frame once dubbed "the stoned Julian Bream of folk guitar".