Jack Orion

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Jack Orion
Jack Orion cover
Studio album by Bert Jansch
Released September 1966 (UK)
Recorded 5 North Villas, Camden (London); Early Summer 1966
Genre Folk
Length 44:30
Label Transatlantic
Producer(s) Bill Leader
Professional reviews
Bert Jansch chronology
It Don’t Bother Me
(1965)
Jack Orion
(1966)
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 ballad telling of a fiddler and his servant's infidelity. A number of songs are performed with friend and fellow guitarist John Renbourn, who would later join him in the group Pentangle.

[edit] Track listing

  1. The Waggoner's Lad – 3:32
  2. The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face – 1:45
  3. Jack Orion – 9:50
  4. The Gardener – 1:40
  5. Nottamun Town – 4:30
  6. Henry Martin – 3:17
  7. Blackwaterside – 3:49
  8. Pretty Polly – 4:07

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