Toy Balloon

Bert Jansch

22nd April 2023 - Album - EARTH053

Toy Balloon receives it’s long overdue debut vinyl pressing, featuring new artwork. Caught somewhere between traditional folk and Jansch’s penchant for the blues, ‘Toy Balloon’, from 1998, was the elder statesman of British folk’s 20th studio album.

  • Ltd Edition Record Store Day 2023 release

£24.00

Featuring a host of fantastic solo performances along with a brace of bigger sounding moments with a band including former Dire Straits’ Pick Withers on drums and the legendary Pee Wee Ellis on sax, the mainly self-penned opus also boasts a hypnotic cover of the standard ‘She Moves Through The Fair’ and an evocative reading of Jackson C Frank’s ‘Carnival’.

Tracklist

Side One
A1 Carnival
A2 She Moved Through the Fair
A3 All i Got
A4 Bett's Dance
A5 Toy Balloon
A6 Waitin' & Wonderin'
Side Two
B1 Hey Doc
B2 Sweet Talking Lady
B3 Paper Houses
B4 Born and Bred in Old Ireland
B5 How It All Came Down
B6 Just a Simple Soul

Description

Featuring a host of fantastic solo performances along with a brace of bigger sounding moments with a band including former Dire Straits’ Pick Withers on drums and the legendary Pee Wee Ellis on sax, the mainly self-penned opus also boasts a hypnotic cover of the standard ‘She Moves Through The Fair’ and an evocative reading of Jackson C Frank’s ‘Carnival’.

Description

Featuring a host of fantastic solo performances along with a brace of bigger sounding moments with a band including former Dire Straits’ Pick Withers on drums and the legendary Pee Wee Ellis on sax, the mainly self-penned opus also boasts a hypnotic cover of the standard ‘She Moves Through The Fair’ and an evocative reading of Jackson C Frank’s ‘Carnival’.

Tracklist

Side One
A1 Carnival
A2 She Moved Through the Fair
A3 All i Got
A4 Bett's Dance
A5 Toy Balloon
A6 Waitin' & Wonderin'
Side Two
B1 Hey Doc
B2 Sweet Talking Lady
B3 Paper Houses
B4 Born and Bred in Old Ireland
B5 How It All Came Down
B6 Just a Simple Soul

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