Lucky the Man explained

Lucky the Man
Type:Album
Artist:Wizz Jones
Cover:Wizz Jones Lucky The Man.jpg
Released:2001
Recorded:1998 to 2000
Genre:Folk, folk rock
Length:46:10
Label:Scenescof (USA), Hux
Producer:Wizz Jones, Andy le Vien, Charles Reynolds
Prev Title:Through the Fingers
Prev Year:2001
Next Title:Young Fashioned Ways
Next Year:2004

Lucky the Man is the 2001 studio album by the British folk guitarist, singer and songwriter Wizz Jones. The album was re-released on CD in 2007, with additional tracks, on the Hux label; this issue comes with a 12-page booklet including extensive notes, personal comments from Wizz on each of the bonus tracks, plus rare photographs from Jones' personal archive.

Track listing

  1. "Weeping Willow Blues" (Blind Boy Fuller)
  2. "Sermonette" (Nat and Julian Adderley)
  3. "Lucky the Man" (Wizz Jones)
  4. "Paris" (Clive Palmer; arranged by Wizz Jones)
  5. "Omie Wise "(Traditional; arranged by Wizz Jones)
  6. "Mountain Rain" (Archie Fisher)
  7. "In Stormy Weather" (Al Jones)
  8. "Another Summertime" (Wizz Jones)
  9. "Lullaby of Battersea" (Wizz Jones)
  10. "Roving Cowboy (Ballad of Dan Moody)" (Mike Smith)
  11. "Funny (But I Still Love You)" (Ray Charles)
  12. "Blues Run the Game" (Jackson C. Frank)
  13. "Would You Like to Take a Walk?" (Mort Dixon, Billy Rode, Harry Warren)

Additional tracks on 2007 CD release

  1. "About a Spoonful" (Mance Lipscomb)
  2. "Dark Eyed Gypsies" (Traditional; arranged by Wizz Jones)
  3. "Moving On Song" (Ewan MacColl)
  4. "Planet Without a Plan" (Wizz Jones)
  5. "Sugar for Sugar" (Richard "Rabbit" Brown)

Personnel

Label details

2001 issue

2007 issue

Production