In Search of Nic Jones explained

In Search of Nic Jones
Type:Live
Artist:Nic Jones
Border:yes
Released:1998
Genre:Folk
Label:Mollie Music : MMCD01
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In Search of Nic Jones is an album by Nic Jones, released in 1998. It is a collection of remastered live recordings, performed between 1979 and 1982. The album was voted Mojo's Folk Album of the Month, August 1998.[1] [2]

Track listing

  1. "Seven Yellow Gypsies" (Traditional(Child #200, Roud #1)/Arr. Nic Jones) 3:17
  2. "Texas Girl At The Funeral Of Her Father" (Randy Newman) 2:52
  3. "Lord Franklin" (Traditional(Roud #487)/Arr. Nic Jones) 4:22
  4. "Swimming Song" (Loudon Wainwright III) 2:54
  5. "Ploughman Lads" (John Wilson(Roud #3448)) 3:13
  6. "Ruins by the Shore" (Nic Jones) 3:51
  7. "On Board The Kangaroo" (Traditional(Roud #925)/Arr. Nic Jones) 3:14
  8. "Hardiman The Fiddler" (Traditional/Arr. Nic Jones) 1:34
  9. "Green to Grey" (Nic Jones) 2:26
  10. "Rose of Allendale" (Nelson/Jeffreys(Roud #1218)/Arr. Nic Jones) 4:51
  11. "Teddy Bears' Picnic" (Music by John W. Bratton) 2:19
  12. "Thanksgiving" (Rick Lee) 2:39

Track 1, Seven Yellow Gypsies, was recorded from a BBC "Folk on 2" session on 1 March 1981. Track 3, Lord Franklin, was recorded from a concert in Italy in 1981.[3]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.nicjones.net/search.htm Official Nic Jones we site
  2. http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/nic.jones/records/insearchofnicjones.html Nic Jones: In Search of Nic Jones
  3. http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/nic.jones/records/insearchofnicjones.html Nic Jones: In Search of Nic Jones