Pentangle – Reunions, Live & BBC Sessions 1982-2011, 4CD Clamshell Box 2023

Essential 4CD box set presenting exceptional live and BBC session recordings by the reunited original line up of legendary folk rock band Pentangle.

• Tracks include live versions of fan favourites such as ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’, ‘Pentangling’ and the hit single ‘Light Flight’.

The recordings on disc 1 are sourced from the BBC archives and previously unreleased. These include six songs from Pentangle’s brilliant first reunion appearance at The Cambridge Folk Festival in 1982 and a great version of ‘Bruton Town’ from their return there in 2011, plus sessions from BBC TV shows Six Fifty-Five Special and Later With Jools Holland, the 2007 Radio 2 Folk Awards and BBC Radio 6 Music’s Freak Zone.

Apart from the first eight tracks that feature the quartet of Bert Jansch (vocals/guitar), Jacqui McShee (vocals), John Renbourn (vocals/guitar) and Danny Thompson (double bass) as drummer Terry Cox was absent due to injury, ‘Reunions’ features all five members of the original Pentangle.

Disc 2 contains 18 previously unreleased recordings of stunning performances from Thiene and Milan on Pentangle’s triumphant 1982 Italian tour.

Discs 3 and 4 comprise the band’s final double album, ‘Finale: An Evening With Pentangle’, that includes performances cherry picked from their 2008 UK tour and was first released by Topic Records in 2016.

Includes notes from acclaimed author Mick Houghton.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
Reunions At The BBC
Cambridge Folk Festival (BBC World Service) 1982
1 Train Song
2 If I Said I Had a Lover
3 People on the Highway
4 Sovay
5 Bruton Town
6 I’ve Got a Feeling
Six Fifty-Five Special (BBC 2) 5/8/82
7 Sovay
8 If I Had a Lover
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards (BBC Radio 2) 5/2/07
9 Bruton Town
10 Light Flight
11 David Attenborough presents Lifetime Achievement Award to Terry Cox & Bert Jansch
Freak Zone (BBC Radio 6 Music) 27/4/08
12 Let No Man Steal Your Thyme
13 Light Flight
14 Market Song
15 I’ve Got a Feeling
Later with Jools Holland (BBC 2) 29/4/08 + 2/5/08
16 Let No Man Steal Your Thyme
17 Light Flight
18 I’ve Got a Feeling
Cambridge Folk Festival Highlights (BBC Radio 2) 3/8/11
19 Bruton Town

DISC TWO
Live In Italy
Thiene, 10/12/82
1. Bruton Town
2. People on the Highway
3. Light Flight
4. Ragtime Tune (John Renbourn solo)
Teatro Orfeo, Milan 9/12/82
5. A Bold Young Farmer (Jacqui McShee solo)
6. Train Song
7. If I Had a Lover
8. Open Up the Watergate
10. Blackwater Side (Bert Jansch & Danny Thompson)
11. Sovay
12. Sweet Child
13. Band Intros
14. Pentangling
15. I’ve Got a Feeling 16: Cruel Sister
17. Sally Free and Easy
18. Moonshine

DISC THREE
Finale: An Evening with Pentangle (PART ONE)
1. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme
2. Light Flight
3. Mirage
4. Hunting Song
5. Once I Had A Sweetheart
6. Market Song
7. In Time
8. People On The Highway
9. House Carpenter
10. Cruel Sister

DISC FOUR
Finale: An Evening with Pentangle (PART TWO)
1. The Time Has Come
2. Bruton Town
3. A Maid That’s Deep In Love
4. I’ve Got A Feeling
5. The Snows
6. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
7. No More My Lord
8. Sally Free And Easy
9. Wedding Dress
10. Pentangling
11. Will The Circle Be Unbroken

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