Winter Song (Wizz Jones album)
Encyclopedia
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. The recordings also came as a bonus EP
with the Double Album
"Soloflight
", and in 2007 were included as bonus tracks on the remastered CD release of "When I Leave Berlin
".
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...
by the pioneer 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 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...
. The songs were recorded on a tape recorder at concert promoter Willy Schwenken's house in Nottuln
Nottuln
Nottuln is a municipality in the district of Coesfeld in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.-Neighbouring municipalities:* Billerbeck* Havixbeck* Senden, North Rhine-Westphalia* Dülmen* Coesfeld-Division of the municipality:...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
circa 1972. The recordings also came as a bonus 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...
with the Double Album
Double album
A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....
"Soloflight
Soloflight
Soloflight is the 1978 double album by the pioneer British Folk musician Wizz Jones. The album contains covers and traditional folk tunes recorded from 1970-1974...
", and in 2007 were included as bonus tracks on the remastered CD release of "When I Leave Berlin
When I Leave Berlin
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"...
".
Track listing
- "When You're Gone" (Alan TunbridgeAlan Tunbridge-Life and work:Normally painting in oils, Alan Tunbridge has also designed a great number of book dust-jacket illustrations, mainly in Scraperboard....
) - 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
Production
- Producer: Wizz Jones
- Recording Engineer: Willy Schwenken/Wizz Jones
- Mixing: n/a
- Photography: unknown