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Description  Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs [1980][EAC/FLAC]  FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue Label/Cat#:Topic Records / TSCD411 Country: UK Year: June 20, 1995 Genre: Folk Format:CD  01. Canadee-I-O [0:06:00.09] 02. The Drowned Lovers [0:06:32.50] 03. The Humpback Whale [0:06:05.93] 04. The Little Pot Stove [0:05:38.56] 05. Courting is a Pleasure [0:05:23.57] 06. Barrack Street [0:04:29.60] 07. Planxty Davis [0:02:51.69] 08. The Flandyke Shore [0:02:54.10] 09. Farewell to the Gold [0:05:18.53] Here, thanks to Topic records, is the only example of Nic's studio output that you can buy on CD, until the 90's/00's reissues of his earlier work. For the first time, Nic recorded a modern song (Paul Metser's Farewell to the Gold) and he gave up on sleeve notes again. He also laid his claim to The Humpbacked Whale, The Drowned Lovers, Barrack Street and The Little Pot Stove and put his stamp on them. Most spectacularly for me, he produced one of the most perfect marriages of guitar accompaniment and song in Canadee-i-o - the version later covered by Bob Dylan. This one brings tears to my eyes as I hear the rhythmic, rising sequence of broken chords carrying a version of the tune - and the riskily bent note (in a folk song? Shock, horror!). Nic's singing weaves around the accompaniment in a loose way that he had by now perfected and I defy anyone to better this treatment of this song. T'was not for nothing that this won the Folk Roots' Critics' Poll as the album of the year in 1980 and as the reissue of 1991. It's a classic that would be joined by The Noah's Ark Trap and From The Devil To A Stranger in that category if they were to be exhumed from the vaults and allowed to breathe again.  Sharing Widget |