Jack Orion

Jack Orion is the third album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in 1966. It contains a number of traditional songs, including the epic "Jack Orion": a ten-minute adaptation of the Child ballad "Glasgerion" which tells of a court fiddler’s attempt to seduce a countess and his servant's treachery in successfully impersonating him. A number of songs are performed with friend and fellow guitarist John Renbourn, who would later join him in the group Pentangle. "The Waggoner’s Lad" has Jansch unusually playing the banjo with Renbourn supplying the guitar part.

Jack Orion
Studio album by Bert Jansch
Released	September 1966 (UK)
Recorded	c. early summer 1966
Studio	5 North Villas, Camden, London
Genre	Folk
Length	44:30
Label	Transatlantic
Producer	Bill Leader
Bert Jansch chronology
Lucky Thirteen (1965) Jack Orion (1966) Bert and John (1966)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[1]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Waggoner's Lad" (instrumental)	traditional	3:32
2.	"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"	Ewan McColl; instrumental arranged by Bert Jansch	1:45
3.	"Jack Orion"	traditional	9:50

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
4.	"The Gardener"	traditional	1:40
5.	"Nottamun Town"	traditional	4:30
6.	"Henry Martin"	traditional	3:17
7.	"Blackwaterside"	traditional	3:49
8.	"Pretty Polly"	traditional	4:07

1970 US and 1991 Vanguard CD track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Waggoner's Lad"	traditional	3:32
2.	"Blackwaterside"	traditional	3:49
3.	"The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face"	Ewan McColl	1:45
4.	"900 Miles" (from It Don't Bother Me UK release)	traditional	3:08
5.	"The Gardener"	traditional	1:40
6.	"Pretty Polly"	traditional	4:07
7.	"Nottamun Town"	traditional	4:30
8.	"Henry Martin"	traditional	3:17
9.	"Jack Orion"	traditional	9:50

See also

• Folk music

References

1. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.