Basket of Light
Their biggest album, with "Light Flight" as the opener and the theme to a BBC drama.
Pentangle, 1969
- Released
- October 1969
- Studio
- IBC Studios, London
- Label
- Transatlantic
- Producer
- Shel Talmy
- Length
- 40:07
Cox plays drums, glockenspiel and hand drum and sings, Jansch plays guitar and banjo on "House Carpenter", Renbourn guitar and sitar, with McShee and Thompson; the engineers were Damon Lyon-Shaw and John Pantry. Rolling Stone's Gary Von Tersch reviewed it unfavorably in February 1970. A 2001 Castle reissue adds alternates and the B-sides "Cold Mountain" and "I Saw an Angel".
Track listing
- Light Flight3:14
- Once I Had a Sweetheart4:37
- Springtime Promises4:04
- Lyke-Wake Dirge3:32
- Train Song4:43
- Hunting Song6:41
- Sally Go 'Round the Roses3:34
- The Cuckoo4:26
- House Carpenter5:27
Personnel
- Jacqui McShee vocals
- Bert Jansch guitar, banjo, vocals
- John Renbourn guitar, sitar, vocals
- Danny Thompson double bass
- Terry Cox drums, glockenspiel, vocals
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Where to go next
Reference
- Basket of Light on Wikipedia Personnel and tracklist.
Discography and data
- Mainly Norfolk: Pentangle records The deepest catalog.
Sources
- Basket of Light, Wikipedia
- The Pentangle records, Mainly Norfolk