Monday, June 6, 2022

Pentangle - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: 1969

Here's the third of six albums of Pentangle playing for the BBC. Like the first two, this consists entirely of studio tracks.

Like the other albums in this series, this comes from a mix of the two official BBC albums for the band, "On Air" and "The Lost Broadcasts," and unreleased songs. Tracks 1, 2, 5, and 6 are the unreleased ones. But I doubt you'll notice a difference in sound quality between them and the rest.

The band had a fluke hit, "Light Flight," probably due to it being used as the theme to a TV show. It's a great, catchy song, and the BBC studio version can be found here. The song "Name of the Game" is also here. I added this exact version to my Pentangle stray tracks album, because it's a very rare case of an original (as opposed to a cover) that they didn't put on any of their studio albums.

The album suffers from the problem of BBC DJs talking over the music, but in this case it only happened to four songs (the ones with "[Edit]" in their names). As I do, I wiped out the talking but kept the music, thanks to the X-Minus audio editing program.

This album is 42 minutes long.

01 Cold Mountain [Edit] (Pentangle)
02 I Am Lonely [Edit] (Pentangle)
03 The Cuckoo (Pentangle)
04 Light Flight (Pentangle)
05 Moondog [Edit] (Pentangle)
06 House Carpenter [Edit] (Pentangle)
07 Name of the Game (Pentangle)
08 Train Song (Pentangle)
09 Springtime Promises (Pentangle)
10 Country Blues (Pentangle)
11 The Trees They Do Grow High [Young but Growing] (Pentangle)
12 Lyke Wake Dirge (Pentangle)
13 Reynardine (Pentangle)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15267340/Pentgl_1969_BBSessionsVolume3_atse.zip.html

The cover art comes from a 1969 publicity photo shoot.

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