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Release Date: 10 October 2025
Label: Cherry Red
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5013929692909
Description
• The Pentangle’s 1972 album 'Solomon’s Seal’ presented in a superb new master with bonus tracks as a 2CD Deluxe Edition.
• Compiled by Pentangle expert and Bert Jansch biographer Colin Harper with all audio newly mastered by Eroc at The Ranch.
• Includes notes from Pentangle reunion PR and acclaimed author Mick Houghton that draw on a new interview with singer Jacqui McShee.
'Solomon’s Seal’ was the last album released by The Pentangle before their 1973 split and features all five original members: Bert Jansch (vocals/guitar), Jacqui McShee (vocals), John Renbourn (vocals/guitar), Danny Thompson (double bass) and Terry Cox (drums).
Extras include an exceptional complete BBC Sound Of The 70s session featuring live versions of five of the album tracks, live recordings from the Guildford and St. Albans concerts on Pentangle’s Autumn 1972 tour and soundtrack recordings from Christian The Lion and the Shell Oil documentary On Any Day, the latter previously unreleased and long believed lost. Ten of the thirteen live tour recordings are also previously unissued.
Also includes John Renbourn’s version of the traditional folk song and album favourite 'Willy O’ Winsbury’ from Renbourn’s album 'Faro Annie’.
Tracklisting
DISC ONE
Solomon’s Seal (1972)
1. Sally Free and Easy
2. The Cherry Tree Carol
3. The Snows
4. High Germany
5. People on the Highway
6. Willy O’ Winsbury
7. No Love is Sorrow
8. Jump Baby Jump
9. Lady Of Carlisle
BBC Sounds of the 70s, John Renbourn & Jacqui McShee, 7/5/73
10. Flower of Northumberland*
BBC Sounds of the 70s, rec: 19/6/72, TX: 17/7/72 & 9/10/72
11. People on the Highway
12. No Love is Sorrow
13. Jump Baby Jump
14. The Cherry Tree Carol
15. Lady of Carlisle
Soundtrack from On Any Day (Shell Film Unit Documentary, 1972)
16. Music from On Any Day*
John Renbourn (from Faro Annie, 1971)
17. Willy O’ Winsbury
*Previously Unreleased
DISC TWO
The Final Tour: October–November 1972 Guildford Civic Hall 10/11/72
1. Yarrow
2. When I Get Home
3. My Sweet Potato*
4. She Moved Through the Fair
5. Reynardine*
6. Train Song
7. The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife are Some Jive-Ass Slippers*
8. Cruel Sister (part)*
9. People on the Highway*
10. Haul Away*
St Albans Civic Centre 27/10/72
11. The Cuckoo*
12. The Snows*
13. Cruel Sister*
Excerpts from Christian the Lion (1972)
14. Christian the Lion
15. The Furniture Store
*Previously Unreleased
West, Bruce & Laing
Various Artists
The Residents
The Pentangle
The Fall
The Fall
Thea Gilmore
Sheena Easton
The Zac Schulze Gang
Tankus
Mickey Jupp
McCoys
Stretch
Jerome Froese
Split Enz
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