Another Monday
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Renbourn’s second album of excellent folk-blues, virtuosic and full of heart and imagination, open to influences from jazz and world music, though not as much as in many subsequent efforts. His inclination toward early music is evident on “Ladye Nothinge’s Toye Puffe” and “One for William,” the latter of which also features oboe. More typically, though, he drifts into the blues idiom, two of the standouts being his interpretation of the oft-covered “I Know My Babe” (more frequently titled “I Know You Rider” when recorded by other artists) and his bottleneck playing on “Nobody’s Fault but Mine.” For Pentangle fans, the album is especially interesting for the recording debut of Jacqui McShee as accompanying vocalist on three numbers. Twenty-eight minutes. 2002 reissue
The Lady And The Unicorn
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Medieval and early classical pieces interspersed with the expected folk material (keyboard works from the Fitzwilliam virginal book (transcribed for guitar) stand alongside traditional tunes such as “Scarborough Fair,” which turns up as part of an eleven-minute track that also incorporates “My Johnny Was a Shoemaker”). Reissue from 2003