Trad Arr Jones | 
| Artist: John Wesley Harding
Label: Appleseed Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 213856
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered, Extra Tracks
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 611587104120
EAN: 0611587104120
ASIN: B000058TEC
Release Date: February 27, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Singer's Request | | • | Little Musgrave | | • | Golden Glove | | • | Annachie Gordon | | • | Flandyke Shore | | • | William and Nancy's Parting | | • | William Glenn | | • | Bonny Bunch of Roses | | • | Master Kilby | | • | Annan Water | | • | Isle of France | | • | Canadee-I-O (bonus track) | | • | Billy, Don't You Weep for Me (bonus track) | | • | Edward | | • | The Humpback Whale |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Often compared to Elvis Costello, with whom he shares certain smoky vocal intonations, John Wesley Harding is working along the lines of another of his heroes, Bruce Springsteen. This collection, which puts one in mind of Springsteen's forays into acoustic music, features traditional folk songs recorded by the obscure but respected folksinger Nic Jones. (Jones withdrew from public performing following a 1982 car accident.) With little more than acoustic guitars and occasional accordion, Harding lights into ageless tales of unrequited love in which women are maidens and men are sailors forever lost at sea. Recorded over three days in a Seattle studio, Trad Arr Jones is a deceptively simple, powerfully immediate collection that casts its creator firmly in the troubadour tradition. --Rob O'Connor
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Mesmerizing March 18, 2000
Wes fan (New Johnsonville, TN)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have been a fan of Wes for years, but this album exceeded my expectations. These songs are incredible, giving credit to Nic Jones, and the interpretations are wonderful as well. Now I want to go get more of the original work of Nic Jones, if it weren't out of print. Buy this album - you won't regret it.
 A must for fans of Wes and/or trad. English folk music January 9, 2000
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is an excellent collection of tunes. The arrangements are sparse(usually just guitar and vocal) but quite beautiful. The respect and love that Wes has for these songs and the underappreciated Nic Jones really comes through in the music.
Simple, beautiful, and transcendent April 12, 1999
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
A beautiful, mellow album. A must for Wes fans. I'm not usually a fan of either traditional of folk music, but this album is haunting, timeless. I've played it dozens of times in the few weeks I've had it.
Punk sings Childe ballads, seaman songs, and other folk March 22, 2006
Frank Camm (Northern Virginia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Instant goose bumps. Think Elvis Costello or a young Graham Parker singing Childe ballads, seaman songs, English plainsong, and folk rounds with spare accompaniment (variously guitar, mandolin, accordion). Think punks singing their tattoos away at the end of a night of beery-good fellowship. Think Manchester street toughs finding grace and a way home to a world before machines, struggling wity heightened human feelings of yearning, frailty, heartbreak, and about death. Think a regular guy finding English folk in his blood, but no standard folk way to let it out.
Tracks 12-15 use a full electric band and are characteristic of his other work. But they work well here too. [73:18]
One of the best songs ever recorded August 6, 2008
Jay R. Chase (Houston, Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
John Wesley Harding gives us his rendition of The Little Musgrave on this CD. I have heard several versions of it previously, most notably Joan Baez' version, but I was captivated by this version the moment I heard it. He gives a depth of emotion to the song that lasts long after it is over (one of those things that has to be experienced). This version is a bit more stark and realistic - and poignant as the dickens!! Oh yeah... he has some other nice songs on there as well... :) But seriously, get the album, if only for that one song - it is well worth it!
Interestingly, Harding does not read a lick of sheet music - just plays.
So.. give it a listen - let me know what you think...
I highly recommend!
All the best,
Jay
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