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John Renbourn (Marylebone, Londen, 8 augustus 1944) is een Engelse gitarist en songwriter. Hij is wellicht het best bekend voor zijn samenwerking met gitarist Bert Jansch en zijn werk met de folkgroep Pentangle, hoewel hij een solo-carrière onderhield, zowel vóór, tijdens en na het bestaan van die band (1967-1973).














John Renbourn...Sir John A lot(1968)remastered


1 The Earle of Salisbury   1:22 
2 The Trees They Do Grow High   3:37 
3 Lady Goes to Church   2:56 
4 Morgana   7:30 
5 Transfusion   2:03 
6 Forty Eight   2:56 
7 My Dear Boy   1:21 
8 White Fishes   2:43 
9 Sweet Potato   3:24 
10 Seven Up   3:51 
 Previously Unissued Bonus Tracks:    
11 The Earle of Salisbury (Alternative Take 4)   1:23 
12 Transfusion (Alternative Take 2)   2:00 
13 Forty Eight (Alternative Take 1)   2:45 


The title of 1969's SIR JOHNALOTà is actually long and wordy in the finest Joycean fashion. Whatever you call it, this collection of traditional-style songs and ballads is John Renbourn's finest solo album. Acoustic six and 12-string guitars, played in Renbourn's inimitable style, accompany period instruments, reeds, and even a bit of sitar and Indian percussion.

Renbourn's remarkable skills are on display throughout, but this is not merely a display of chops. The playing is entirely in service to the song. When Renbourn reels off a dazzlingly fleet-fingered solo on a piece like "White Fishes" or "Sweet Potato," it's because that's what the song needed. The album gets progressively jazzier as it goes on, until the closing "Seven Up" suggests Django Reinhardt set loose in a medieval fair. Wonderful stuff, and one of the finest guitar-instrumental albums ever.

Recorded at Sound Techniques, London, England. Includes liner notes by Colin Harper.

Personnel: John Renbourn (vocals, guitar); Ray Warleigh (flute); Terry Cox (glockenspiel, drums, cymbals, finger cymbals, percussion).

Liner Note Author: Colin Harper.

Recording information: Sound Techniques Studio, Chelsea, London, England.

Arranger: John Renbourn.