Pentangle – Through The Ages 1984-1995 6CD Clamshell Box Set

Pentangle – Through The Ages 1984-1995

• 6 CD box set containing legendary folk rock band Pentangle’s reunion albums released between 1984 and 1995.

• Featuring ‘Open The Door’ (1984), ‘In The Round’ (1986), ‘So Early In The Spring’ (1989), ‘Think Of Tomorrow’ (1991), ‘One More Road’ (1993) and ‘Live 1994’ (1995).

• Also including are 27 previously unreleased recordings – 13 sourced from BBC sessions for the Radio 2 programmes Folk On Two and Night Ride.
Plus three tracks from a BBC broadcast from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London and a further eleven live in concert recordings from gigs in Portland, Oregon, New York, London and Dublin; the four tracks recorded at Whelan’s, Dublin are all revivals from their classic 1968-1972 era that aren’t featured on ‘Live 1994’ including a version of their hit single ‘Light Flight’.

Bert Jansch and Jacqui McShee led Pentangle throughout their reunion years and are present on all recordings in the box. Mike Piggott (guitar/violin) replaced John Renbourn in the new Pentangle line up alongside original members McShee (vocals), Jansch (guitar/ vocals), Danny Thompson (double bass) and Terry Cox (drums) for ‘Open The Door’.

Thompson had left by ‘In The Round’ and was replaced by Nigel Portman Smith. Drummer Gerry Conway, who’d played with Cat Stevens replaced Cox and guitarist Rod Clements of Lindisfarne replaced Piggott by ‘So Early In The Spring’ with Peter Kirtley taking Clements’ place by ‘Think Of Tomorrow’.
Pentangle vocalist Jacqui McShee has contributed extensive notes to this package alongside Pentangle authority Colin Harper.

Tracklist:
DISC ONE
Open the Door (1984)
1 Open The Door
2 Dragonfly
3 Mother Earth
4 Child Of The Winter
5 The Dolphin
6 Lost Love
7 Sad Lady
8 Taste Of Love
9 Yarrow Street Song Bonus Tracks
Folk on Two 12/86 (BBC Radio 2)
10 Street Song
11 Bruton Town
12 Dragonfly
13 Sunday Morning Blues
14 Taste of Love
15 Yarrow
16 She Moved Through the Fair Night Ride 1986 (BBC Radio 2)
17 Is It Real

DISC TWO
In The Round (1986)
1 Play The Game
2 The Open Sea
3 She Moved Through The Fair
4 Set Me Free (When The Night Is Over)
5 Come To Me Baby
6 Sunday Morning Blues
7 Chase That Devil Away
8 The Saturday Movie
9 Süil Agrar
10 Circle The Moon
11 Let Me Be Bonus Tracks
Night Ride 1987 (BBC Radio 2)
12 Taste of Love
13 Bruton Town
14 Sally Free & Easy
15 Kingfisher
16 Circle the Moon
17 People on the Highway

DISC THREE
So Early in the Spring (1989)
1 So Early In The Spring
2 The Blacksmith
3 Reynardine
4 Lucky Black Cat
5 Eminstra
6 Bramble Briar
7 Lassie Gathering Nuts
8 Gaea
9 The Baron Of Brackley
Bonus Tracks
Queen Elizabeth Hall 17/9/88 (BBC Radio 2)
10 A Bold Young Farmer
11 The Lassie Gathering Nuts
12 Taste of Love
Maine Raoul’s, Portland, Oregon, 7/6/91
13 The Snows
14 Child of Winter

DISC FOUR
Think of Tomorrow (1991)
1 O’er The Lonely Mountain
2 Baby Now It’s Over
3 Share A Dream
4 The Storyteller (Paddy’s Song)
5 Meat On The Bone
6 Ever Yes, Ever No
7 Straight Ahead
8 The Toss Of Golden Hair
9 The Lark In The Clear Air
10 The Bonny Boy
11 Colour My Paintbook
Bonus Tracks
Bottom Line, New York, 4/8/91
12 O’er the Lonely Mountain
13 Lassie Gathering Nuts
14 Gaea
15 So Early in the Spring Half Moon, Putney, 17/5/93
16 Endless Sky
German single remix
17 Colour My Paintbook

DISC FIVE
One More Road (1993)
1 Travelling Solo
2 Oxford City
3 Endless Sky
4 The Lilly Of The West
5 One More Road
6 High Germany
7 Hey, Hey Soldier
8 Willy Of Winsbury
9 Somali
10 Manuel
11 Are You Going To Scarborough Fair?
Bonus Tracks
Whelan’s, Dublin, 24/3/94
12 Train Song
13 Light Flight
14 Willy Of Winsbury
15 I’ve Got a Feeling

DISC SIX
Live 1994 (1995)
1 Bramble Briar
2 Sally Free And Easy
3 Kingfisher
4 Come Back Baby
5 When I Was In My Prime
6 Meat On The Bone
7 Travelling Solo
8 The Bonny Boy
9 Chasing Love
10 Cruel Sister
11 Yarrow
12 Reynardine

Label: Cherry Red
Released: 2022