Jackson C. Frank
Jackson C. Frank (1965)
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Length:  56:16
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Blues Run The Game    3:34
      2.  
      		 Don't Look Back    3:00
      3.  
      		 Kimbie    3:18
      4.  
      		 Yellow Walls    3:02
      5.  
      		 Here Come The Blues    4:03
      6.  
      		 Milk And Honey    3:40
      7.  
      		 My Name Is Carnival    3:47
      8.  
      		 I Want To Be Alone (Dialogue)    3:20
      9.  
      		 Just Like Anything    2:26
      10.  
      		 You Never Wanted Me    3:11
      11.  
      		 Marlene    4:48
      12.  
      		 Marcy's Song    4:22
      13.  
      		 The Visit    4:48
      14.  
      		 Prima Donna Of Swans    5:05
      15.  
      		 Relations    3:47
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      Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank (1965) {2002 reissue}


      Review

      Jackson C. Frank's original 1965 album is a lost classic, daringly complex and honest, filled with virtuoso playing that is all the more impressive for the offhanded way that Frank makes it look so easy. There is a convergence of elements here that may confuse the uninitiated, because of their seeming contradictions – a flashiness and assertiveness on the acoustic guitars and the approach to singing on numbers like "Don't Look Back" and "Yellow Walls" that are by-products of Frank's early history as a rock & roller, a depth and complexity of blues playing that derives from life as much as from talent and dexterity; and the meld of American and English folk sounds is like nothing that any listener has heard from either side of the Atlantic anywhere else. Derived from a song bag that included "Blues Run the Game," "Yellow Walls," "My Name Is Carnival," and "You Never Wanted Me," the album is kind of overpowering – rather ironically, it's the downbeat nature of those same songs that likely would have prevented Jackson C. Frank from being anything much more than a major cult favourite; even "Blues Run the Game," for all of its beauty, has an underlying sadness that makes it difficult to hear, at least in its album version.

      Tracklisting

      01. Blues Run The Game
      02. Don't Look Back
      03. Kimbie
      04. Yellow Walls
      05. Here Come The Blues
      06. Milk And Honey
      07. My Name Is Carnival
      08. I Want To Be Alone (Dialogue)
      09. Just Like Anything
      10. You Never Wanted Me
      11. Marlene
      12. Marcy's Song
      13. The Visit
      14. Prima Donna Of Swans
      15. Relations
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