The Pentangle - pure love & appreciation thread, album by album eventually

His LPs, certainly his latter three, are true masterpiecies. Penguin Eggs gets all the attention because it's the only one which one can actually reasoably purchase in 2022.

 

A bit easier to find in the USA perhaps. I bought them as they were coming out.

His guitar technique was wonderful, but his voice expressed deep soul.

 

The current prices on the used market are not representative of availablity decades ago, and I find it difficult to believe that Jones' records were easier to find in the U.S. than in the U.K.

 

I believe the CD editions (actually CDR) of "Ballads and Songs" and the self-titled "Nic Jones (1971) are actually more rare than the original LPs.

The Shanachie LP should be easier to find. It was probably pressed in greater quantities than any Nic Jones LP.

I broadcast the complete recordings of Nic Jones several times, probably once each decade from the 1980's through the early 2000's

 

In New England, the center of interest in folk music from the UK and Ireland in the USA, virtually every really good record store stocked all of those titles in the 1980's. A number of stores had Nic Jones section cards.

I recall many performers telling me that their records were easier to find in the USA than back home. Maybe not in the midwest or mountain states, but in the Northeast and the West Coast.

There were also mail order dealers all over the Northeast in the LP era that specialized in folk and traditional. They all carried them. Silo/Alcazar; Rounder; Front Hall; Shanachie; Dick Greenhuis; and others all carried obscure artists from the UK and sold them often. There were other mail-order dealers. Most of them were wiped out by either Amazon or by the transition to CDs. Some kept going in the CD era, but folk sales really fell when $5 LPs were replaced by $16 CDs

 

Yes, the C.M. Distribution CD-Rs of select Trailer titles (produced on-demand, and I believe for mail order and the Glasgow shop which C.M. Distribution had) are not easy to get hold of.

However, they are, as far as I know, dubbed from records. Most of them do not sound brilliant.

I have most of them, excepting the Ray Fisher one…

 

About 20 years ago, I believe I did some synchronized a/b comparisons of the LPs and the CDRs.

I don't recall the results. Usually, I remember if a CD edition is a serious decline, so my belief is that I found them to be similar.

The following is not directed at yourself, but I am sometimes surprised by the animosity of others in other threads at "needle-drops", when every time they listen to an LP, that is a "needle-drop"

 

The closest artist that I have heard in 50 years that can compare to Pentangle, that fuses folk, jazz, rock, and country...
brilliantly!

And like Danny Thompson, her uptight baas player is no slouch either.


Across The Canyon...have a listen...timeless!

 

My favorite Nic Jones album, Penguin Eggs notwithstanding.

Over on Facebook Colin Harper has just announced a program to include (initially) 2 batches of 30 digital release albums from the Translatlantic catalog that have never appeared on CD. I asked him if this included From the Devil to a Stranger and his reply was "Not in the first batch of 30. I don't have info on batch 2 (the mighty Laurence Aston has been guiding that aspect)."

 

Pentangle - Through The Ages (1984-1995): Album review – At The Barrier

I just received my copy which includes 6 original albums and 28 bonus tracks, only one of which has been previously released. It will all be pretty much new to me and I can't wait to dig in.

 

My eta is still unclear but presumably soon(ish).

 

That is exciting indeed. If you have any more information, please share (I don't use Facebook)

 

My order with Amazon was delayed until late October.

 

You might consider cancelling your order. I got mine from importcds.com for $33 plus, I think, $3 shipping. Still much cheaper than Amazon, and I believe they have it in stock.

 

Thanks for the suggestion. $55 for a 6 disc set seemed reasonable to me so I never checked elsewhere. I just checked importcds and it's backordered. Same price at deepdiscount and popmarket but also backordered.

 

Of course I meant UPRIGHT bass player! Damn, I guess "spellcheck" can't tread my mind!

 

Some of my favorite albums in my iTunes library are "needle drops"!

 

My thought exactly when I heard that record! Amazing stuff and all her earlier records are great too.

 

Side two
track 7) Red's Favourite

Fans of Bert & John unit here! Nice!



7. "Red's Favourite" 1:33
8. "No Exit" 1:24
9. "Along the Way" Renbourn 2:02
10. "The Time Has Come" Anne Briggs 2:53
11. "Stepping Stones" 2:42
12. "After the Dance" 2:23

 

track 8) No Exit
So sweet....