- Audio CD (May 28 2001)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Format: Original recording remastered, Import
- Label: Castle
- ASIN: B000057OWD
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Product Description
Album Description
Mid-price digitally remastered reissue of the British folk-rock act's 1968 album. Half recorded in the studio and half at the Royal Festival Hall, it showcases Pentangle's versatility and features some of their finest performances, including 'Turn Your Money Green' and 'Haitian Flight Song'. Slimline double jewel case. 2001 release.
Album Details
Digitally Remastered Edition of the Album Classic from the First British Folk-rock "Supergroup". The Pentangle were an Unusual Agglomeration of Seemingly Disparate Talents and at their Best Succeeded in Mixing Elements of Traditional Folk, Jazz Improvisation and Pop Into a Seamless Whole. Featuring the Brilliant and Contrasting Guitar Playing Skills of Bert Jansch and John Renbourne Against the Rhythmic Undertow Provided by Drummer Terry Cox and Superb Bass Player Danny Thompson and Topped off the the Bell-like Purity of Jacqui Mcshee's Vocals, the Band were the Object of Both Critical and General Public Affection. This Edition Adds a Bonus CD Filled with Outtakes and Rarities that is Sure to Please Any Ardent Fan!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Sweet, as ever,
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This review is from: Sweet Child (Audio CD)
"Sweet Child" was Pentangle's second album, released in 1968. This re-release includes no fewer than eleven bonus tracks beyond the original 2-album collection: four from the studio, and seven from the concert section. The sound is good, though a bit of hiss is still present (especially from the live recordings, which in addition always sounded a bit dull to me), but I guess we can't have everything. What we do have is 33 tracks of some of the most splendidly conceived and performed music of the period, and ranging from out-and-out blues and jazz through to Renaissance music, traditional folk, and originally composed contemporary folk.With this much material, everybody in the group gets to shine. McShee has stellar vocal performances on 'No More My Lord' and 'So Early in the Spring', Cox sounds great on the hand drums in 'Moondog', Thompson solos on 'In Time', 'Hole in the Coal' and 'Haitian Fight Song', and Jansch and Renbourn have plenty of opportunities in 'Goodbye Pork-Pie Hat', 'In Time', 'Three Part Thing', etc., etc. No other Pentangle recording--even the later collections--comes anywhere close to displaying the full range of the group's talents, and at this price, especially, the whole package is strongly recommended.
4.0 out of 5 stars
eclectic and influential,
By Andrew C. Alter (Germantown, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sweet Child (Audio CD)
While I like the idea of a band that goes from traditional english folk to the Staples Singers to Mingus, I think the blues and jazz interpretations here aren't quite as magical as the original band compositions and traditional folk ballads--hence only four stars. The label is to be commended for a truly "value added" reissue that includes seven substantial extra live cuts (making for a 75 minute long concert disc), and four alternate versions. Considering it took place in the overheated summer of 1968, the tone of live concert is tame, even a bit formal-no political overtones, no drugginess, no interplay with the audience. It's nice though; the band's (and the audience's) reverence for the music really comes through. Renbourn and Jansch's acoustic guitar work is inspired of course, but the real surprise to me, as a longtime adherent of Steeleye, Fairport, June Tabor, etc., is Jacqui McShee. Her vocals are pitch perfect and never seek to outstrip the material, yet there are phrasings scattered throughout that make you melt with delight. I'm inclined to compare this with another immortal live album from the sixties, Velvet Underground Live 69. This one wins hands down for recording quality; you hear the instruments and the vocals and nothing else. Unlike Live 69, though, the song introductions here are timid, a bit stiff, and interrupt the trancelike flow that marked the most memorable concerts of the era. Here are the roots of the folk/jazz/blues experiments of early Jethro Tull, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, even Led Zeppelin, as well as the Elizabethan stylings of Gentle Giant. So it's not for purists only!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Re: Best Of Genre,
By Lynn Cartwright (Channel Islands, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sweet Child (Audio CD)
I bought this record in the 70's and still have that copy, as worn out is it became! Every song on this album is well worth the cost, expressly if you love hot standup bass and sweet angelic vocals. The stories told in some of these songs give deeper understanding of life in the Renascence era, when people did not live long, married early, and murder was more commonly ignored.Every musician in this band was extrodinary and deserving of lasting recognition.
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