Lucky The Man is the 2001 studio album by the noted and influential British

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

 Folk guitarist, singer and songwriter Wizz Jones

Wizz Jones

Raymond Ronald Jones better-known as Wizz Jones is an English acoustic guitarist, singer and songwriter. He has been performing since the late 1950s and recording from 1965 to the present...

. The album was re-released on CD in 2007, with additional tracks, on the Hux label; this issue comes with a 12 page booklet including extensive notes, personal comments from Wizz on each of the bonus tracks, plus rare photographs from Jones' personal archive.

Track listing

1. "Weeping Willow Blues (Blind Boy Fuller
   Blind Boy Fuller
   Blind Boy Fuller was an American blues guitarist and vocalist. He was one of the most popular of the recorded Piedmont blues artists with rural Black Americans, a group that also included Blind Blake, Josh White, and Buddy Moss.-Life and career:Fulton Allen was born in Wadesboro, North Carolina,...
   
   )"
2. "Sermonette (Nat and Julian Adderley)"
3. "Lucky the Man (Wizz Jones)"
4. "Paris (Clive Palmer, arr. Wizz Jones)"
5. "Omie Wise (trad, arr. Wizz Jones)"
6. "Mountain Rain (Archie Fisher
   Archie Fisher
   Archie Fisher MBE is a Scottish folk singer and song writer.-The early years:Archie Fisher was born in Glasgow on 23 October 1939 into a large singing family. His sister Cilla Fisher is also a professional singer, as was his late sister Ray. In 1960 he moved to Edinburgh and appeared regularly at...
   
   )"
7. "In Stormy Weather (Al Jones
   Al Jones
   Alun Ashworth-Jones , known as Al Jones, was an influential English folk and blues songwriter, guitarist and singer, noted for his distinctive and original folk-rock guitar style and his often darkly humorous lyrics.-Early career:He first came to prominence in the Bristol folk scene in the...
   
   )"
8. "Another Summertime (Wizz Jones)"
9. "Lullaby of Battersea (Wizz Jones)"
10. "Roving Cowboy (Ballad of Dan Moody) (Mike Smith
    Michael Peter Smith
    Michael Peter Smith is a Chicago, U.S.-based singer-songwriter. Rolling Stone Magazine once called him "The greatest songwriter in the English language"...
    
    )"
11. "Funny (But I Still Love You) (Ray Charles
    Ray Charles
    Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...
    
    )"
12. "Blues Run the Game (Jackson C. Frank
    Jackson C. Frank
    Jackson Carey Frank was an American folk musician.-Early life:When Jackson Frank was 11, a furnace exploded at his school, sending a ball of flames down corridors until it ended up in Frank's music classroom in the Cleveland Hill Elementary School in Cheektowaga, New York...
    
    )"
13. "Would You Like to Take a Walk? (Mort Dixon
    Mort Dixon
    -Biography:Born in New York, Dixon began writing songs in the early 1920s, and was active into the 1930s. He achieved success with his first published effort, 1923's "That Old Gang of Mine". His chief composer collaborators were Ray Henderson, Harry Warren, Harry M...
    
    /Billy Rode/Harry Warren
    Harry Warren
    Harry Warren was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison,...
    
    "

Additional tracks on 2007 CD release

14. "About A Spoonful" (Mance Lipscomb

Mance Lipscomb

Mance Lipscomb was an American blues singer, guitarist and songster. Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas, United States, he as a youth took the name of 'Mance' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie .-Biography:Lipscomb was born April 9, 1895 to an ex-slave father from Alabama and...

)

15. "Dark Eyed Gypsies" (trad. arr. Jones)

16. "Moving On Song" (Ewan MacColl

Ewan MacColl

Ewan MacColl was an English folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer. He was married to theatre director Joan Littlewood, and later to American folksinger Peggy Seeger. He collaborated with Littlewood in the theatre and with Seeger in folk music...

)

17. "Planet Without A Plan" (Wizz Jones)

18. "Sugar For Sugar" (Richard "Rabbit" Brown)†

† with Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Ramblin' Jack Elliott is an American folk singer and performer.-Life and career:Elliot Charles Adnopoz was born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish parents in 1931. Elliott grew up inspired by the rodeos at Madison Square Garden, and wanted to be a cowboy...

, previously unissued

Personnel

• Wizz Jones
  Wizz Jones
  Raymond Ronald Jones better-known as Wizz Jones is an English acoustic guitarist, singer and songwriter. He has been performing since the late 1950s and recording from 1965 to the present...
  
   - acoustic guitar, lead vocals
• John Renbourn
  John Renbourn
  John Renbourn is an English guitarist and songwriter. He is possibly best known for his collaboration with guitarist Bert Jansch as well as his work with the folk group Pentangle, although he maintained a solo career before, during and after that band's existence .While most commonly labelled a...
  
   - guitar, vocals
• Clive Palmer
  Clive Palmer
  Clive Palmer is a British folk musician and banjoist best known as a founding member of the Incredible String Band.Born in Edmonton, North London, he first went on stage at the age of 8, and took banjo lessons from the age of 10. Around 1957 he began playing with jazz bands in Soho...
  
   - 5 string banjo
• Jacqui McShee
  Jacqui McShee
  thumb|300px|right|Jacqui McShee performing with [[Pentangle]] at the 2007 [[BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards]]Jacqueline 'Jacqui' McShee is an English singer. Since 1966 she has performed with Pentangle, a jazz influenced folk rock band.-Biography:McShee's musical career began as a soloist in British folk...
  
   - vocals
• Gary Ricard - Godin electric guitar, vocals
• Gerry Conway
  Gerry Conway (musician)
  Gerald Conway is an English folk and rock drummer/percussionist, best known for having performed with the backing band for Cat Stevens in the 1970s, Jethro Tull during the 1980s, and currently a member of Fairport Convention as well as his side projects...
  
   - percussion
• Bernd Rest - Santa Cruz acoustic guitar
• Simeon Jones - harmonica, tenor saxophone
• Martin Wheatley - National Tricone tenor guitar' Martin mahogony ukelele
• Ramblin' Jack Elliott
  Ramblin' Jack Elliott
  Ramblin' Jack Elliott is an American folk singer and performer.-Life and career:Elliot Charles Adnopoz was born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish parents in 1931. Elliott grew up inspired by the rodeos at Madison Square Garden, and wanted to be a cowboy...
  
   - guitar, vocals (2007 issue only)

2001 issue

• Label = Scenescof (USA)
• Catalogue # = SCOFCD1009 (CD); SCOFLP1009 (limited edition vinyl LP)

2007 issue

• Label: Hux Records
• Catalogue # = HUX094
• ASIN: B000UUHOCW

Production

• Producers: Wizz Jones, Andy le Vien, Charles Reynolds
• Recording Engineer: Andy le Vien
• Mixing: unknown
• Photography: Dave Peabody
  Dave Peabody
  Dave Peabody is an English singer-songwriter, blues and folk musician, record producer and photographer, active since the late 1960s, who has appeared on more than 60 albums...
  
  , Robert Wilbraham, Charles Reynolds, Simeon Jones
• Liner Notes: unknown