When I Leave Berlin
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When I Leave Berlin is the 1973 album by the pioneer British
Folk musician Wizz Jones
. Wizz was accompanied on some of the songs by his future group "Lazy Farmer", and Bert Jansch
played guitar on "Freudian Slip". The album was remastered and released on CD by Sunbeam Records in 2007, also included as bonus tracks were the six songs from his 1973 EP
"Winter Song
".
Great Britain
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Folk musician 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...
. Wizz was accompanied on some of the songs by his future group "Lazy Farmer", and Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch
Herbert "Bert" Jansch was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s, as an acoustic guitarist, as well as a singer-songwriter...
played guitar on "Freudian Slip". The album was remastered and released on CD by Sunbeam Records in 2007, also included as bonus tracks were the six songs from his 1973 EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
"Winter Song
Winter Song (Wizz Jones album)
Winter Song is the 1973 EP by the pioneer British Folk musician Wizz Jones. The songs were recorded on a tape recorder at concert promoter Willy Schwenken's house in Nottuln, Germany circa 1972...
".
Track listing
- "Living Alone" (Wizz Jones) - 2:39
- "Pastures of Plenty" (Woody GuthrieWoody GuthrieWoodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
) - 3:38 - "First Girl I Loved" (Robin WilliamsonRobin WilliamsonRobin Williamson is a Scottish multi-instrumentalist musician, singer, songwriter and storyteller, who first made his name as a founder member of The Incredible String Band.-Career:...
) - 6:59 - "She's Only Waiting" (Wizz Jones) - 2:38
- "Cluck Old Hen" (Traditional) - 3:20
- "When I Leave Berlin" (Wizz Jones) - 3:18
- "Frankie" (Mississippi John HurtMississippi John HurtJohn Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt was an American country blues singer and guitarist.Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught himself how to play the guitar around age nine...
) - 3:06 - "Skip Rope Song" (Jesse WinchesterJesse WinchesterJesse Winchester is a musician and songwriter who was born and raised in the southern United States. To avoid the Vietnam War draft he moved to Canada in 1967, which is where and when he began his career as a solo artist. His highest charting recordings were of his own tunes, "Yankee Lady" in 1970...
) - 3:56 - "Winter Song" (Alan HullAlan HullAlan Hull was an English singer-songwriter and founding member of the Tyneside folk rock band, Lindisfarne.-Career:...
) - 4:03 - "Freudian Slip" (Wizz Jones) - 4:26
Bonus Tracks (included on 2007 CD release)
- "When You're Gone" (Alan Turnbridge) - 2:40
- "Come Back Baby" (Lightnin' HopkinsLightnin' HopkinsSam John Hopkins better known as Lightnin’ Hopkins, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, from Houston, Texas...
) - 3:30 - "Cocaine Blues" (Rev. Gary Davis) - 3:10
- "Frankie" (Mississippi John HurtMississippi John HurtJohn Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt was an American country blues singer and guitarist.Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught himself how to play the guitar around age nine...
) - 2:40 - "Guitar Shuffle" (Big Bill BroonzyBig Bill BroonzyBig Bill Broonzy was a prolific American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played country blues to mostly black audiences. Through the ‘30s and ‘40s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with white audiences...
) - 1:55 - "Winter Song" (Alan HullAlan HullAlan Hull was an English singer-songwriter and founding member of the Tyneside folk rock band, Lindisfarne.-Career:...
) - 4:05
Personnel
- Wizz JonesWizz JonesRaymond 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, vocals - Sandy Jones - banjo
- Jake Walton - guitar, dulcimer, background vocals
- John Bidwell - flute, background vocals
- Don Cogin - banjo
Production
- Producer: Ian A. Anderson
- Recording Engineer: Ian A. Anderson
- Sleeve Design: Terence Brace
- Photography: Ralph Clement