Sweet Child

by The Pentangle

Sweet Child cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 November 1968
  • Label: Transatlantic
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 2:07:25
  • Community rating: 4.16/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Bert Jansch, Terry Cox, Jacqui McShee, John Renbourn, Danny Thompson, Charles Mingus, Ewan MacColl, Pentangle, Furry Lewis, Anne Briggs

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Boasting an incredibly ambitious format that paired one disc of stellar live performances with a second disc of immaculate studio recordings, The Pentangle elevated folk music to virtuosic heights. 'Sweet Child' is beautifully mellow and remarkably polyphonic, weaving fiercely technical, distinctly pastoral folk baroque with highly eclectic, jazz-inflected acoustic interplay.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, technical, melodic, acoustic, polyphonic, folk, traditional, male-vocals, female-vocals

Tracklist

  1. Market Song (4:23)
  2. No More My Lord (4:05)
  3. Turn Your Money Green (2:59)
  4. Haitian Fight Song (3:52)
  5. A Woman Like You (4:06)
  6. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - (with audience) (3:48)
  7. Three Dances: Brentzel Gay/La Rotta/The Earl Of Salisbury (4:57)
  8. Watch The Stars (3:11)
  9. So Early In The Spring (3:37)
  10. No Exit (2:22)
  11. The Time Has Come (3:14)
  12. Bruton Town (6:27)
  13. Hear My Call - Bonus track (3:48)
  14. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme - Bonus track (2:59)
  15. Bells - Bonus track (4:45)
  16. Travelling Song - Bonus track (4:17)
  17. Waltz - Bonus track (6:00)
  18. Way Behind The Sun - Alternate Version - Bonus track (2:59)
  19. John Donne Song - Bonus track (3:24)
  20. Sweet Child (5:11)
  21. I Loved A Lass (2:40)
  22. Three Part Thing (2:25)
  23. Sovay (2:47)
  24. In Time (5:05)
  25. In Your Mind (2:13)
  26. I've Got a Feeling (4:25)
  27. The Trees They Do Grow High (3:47)
  28. Moon Dog (2:40)
  29. Hole In The Coal (5:19)
  30. Hole In The Coal - Alt. Take - Bonus track (2:39)
  31. The Trees They Do Grow High - Alternate Take - Bonus track (3:48)
  32. Haitian Fight Song - Studio version - Bonus track (4:16)
  33. In Time - Alt. version - Bonus track (4:39)

Credits

  • Pentangle - primary artist
  • Bert Jansch - acoustic guitar, vocals, written-by, arranged by
  • John Renbourn - acoustic guitar, vocals, written-by, arranged by
  • Peter Blake - design [album design]
  • Danny Thompson - double bass, written-by, arranged by
  • Terry Cox - drums, glockenspiel, vocals, written-by, arranged by
  • Damon Lyon-Shaw - engineer
  • Hans Feurer - photography by
  • Tony Wilson - sleeve notes [melody maker]
  • Gordon House - typography
  • Jacqui McShee - vocals, written-by, arranged by
  • Traditional - written-by
  • Furry Lewis - written-by
  • Charles Mingus - written-by
  • Anne Briggs - written-by
  • Ewan MacColl - written-by

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