Renbourn,John Unpentangled: Sixties Albums CD

Six CD set. Long acknowledged as one of the greatest and most influential acoustic guitarists to emerge from the British folk scene, the late John Renbourn is best known to the wider world for his membership of Pentangle, the genre-busting band that he was instrumental in bringing together in 1967. Pentangle's recordings are widely available, most recently with Cherry Red's 2017 highly-acclaimed box set Pentangle: The Albums. However, Renbourn recorded extensively both before and during the band's early genesis, with a trio of solo albums joined by two vital collaborations with American-born folk singer Dorris Henderson as well as Bert And John, his joint album with Bert Jansch in 1966. Housed in a clamshell box that boasts replica album sleeves, some very rare photos and a new essay on the man, Unpentangled anthologises that essential but often overlooked body of early work. The set also contains a clutch of bonus tracks from the same period (including a marvellous psychedelic folk rendition of the Love song 'Message To Pretty') to shine the solo spotlight on a man that folk club organiser and future ZigZag founder Pete Frame once dubbed "the stoned Julian Bream of folk guitar".

1. Sally Free and Easy 2. Single Girl 3. Ribbon Bow 4. Cotton Eyed Joe 5. Mr Tambourine Man 6. Mist on the Mountain 7. The Lag's Song 8. American Jail Song 9. The Water Is Wide 10. Something Lonesome 11. Song (Falling Star) 12. Winter Is Gone 13. Strange Lullaby 14. You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond 15. One Morning in May 16. A Banjo Tune (Alias Darling Corey) 17. Going to Memphis 18. The Leaves Are Green (Alias Leaves That Are Green) 19. The Hangman 20. Judy 21. Beth's Blues 22. Song 23. Down on the Barge 24. John Henry 25. Plainsong 26. Louisiana Blues 27. Blue Bones 28. Train Tune 29. Candy Man 30. The Wildest Pig in Captivity 31. National Seven 32. Motherless Children 33. Winter Is Gone 34. Noah and Rabbit 35. The Wildest Pig in Captivity (Alternative Version) 36. Can't Keep from Crying 37. Blues Run the Game 38. Lucky Thirteen 39. East Wind 40. Piano Tune 41. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 42. Soho 43. Tic-Tocative 44. Orlando 45. Red's Favourite 46. No Exit 47. Along the Way 48. The Time Has Come 49. Stepping Stones 50. After the Dance 51. The Waggoner's Lad 52. Another Monday 53. Ladye Nothing's Toy Puffe 54. I Know My Babe 55. Waltz 56. Lost Lover Blues 57. One for William 58. Buffalo 59. Sugar Babe 60. Debbie Anne 61. Can't Keep from Crying 62. Day at the Seaside 63. Nobody's Fault But Mine 64. When You Hear Them Cuckoos Hollerin' 65. It's Been a Long Time 66. 30 Days in Jail 67. No More My Lord 68. Watch the Stars 69. There's Anger in This Land 70. Mosaic Patterns 71. Tomorrow Is a Long Time 72. For Lovin' Me 73. Come Up Horsey 74. God Bless the Child 75. The Time Has Come 76. Poems of Solitude 77. Lonely Mood 78. Gonna Tell My Lord 79. Message to Pretty 80. The Earle of Salisbury 81. The Trees They Do Grow High 82. Lady Goes to Church 83. Morgana 84. Transfusion 85. Forty-Eight 86. My Dear Boy 87. White Fishes 88. Sweet Potato 89. Seven Up 90. The Earle of Salisbury (Alternative Version) 91. Transfusion (Alternative Version) 92. Forty-Eight (Alternative Version)