Jack Orion

1966 studio album by Bert Jansch

Jack Orion

Studio album by

Bert Jansch

Released

September 1966 (UK)

Recorded

c. early summer 1966

Studio

5 North Villas, Camden, London

Genre

Folk

Length

44:30

Label

Transatlantic

Producer

Bill Leader

Bert Jansch chronology

Lucky Thirteen
(1965)

Jack Orion
(1966)

Bert and John
(1966)

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Jack Orion is the third album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in 1966. 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

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Waggoner's Lad" (instrumental)	traditional	3:32
2.	"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"	Ewan McColl; instrumental arranged by Bert Jansch	1:45
3.	"Jack Orion"	traditional	9:50

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
4.	"The Gardener"	traditional	1:40
5.	"Nottamun Town"	traditional	4:30
6.	"Henry Martin"	traditional	3:17
7.	"Blackwaterside"	traditional	3:49
8.	"Pretty Polly"	traditional	4:07

Additional Personnel John Renbourn - guitar on 1, 3, 6 & 8

1970 US and 1991 Vanguard CD track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Waggoner's Lad"	traditional	3:32
2.	"Blackwaterside"	traditional	3:49
3.	"The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face"	Ewan McColl	1:45
4.	"900 Miles" (from It Don't Bother Me UK release)	traditional	3:08
5.	"The Gardener"	traditional	1:40
6.	"Pretty Polly"	traditional	4:07
7.	"Nottamun Town"	traditional	4:30
8.	"Henry Martin"	traditional	3:17
9.	"Jack Orion"	traditional	9:50