Lucky the Man

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Lucky the Man
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Studio album by
Released2001
Recorded1998–2000
Genre Folk, folk rock
Length46:10
Label Scenescof (USA), Hux
Producer Wizz Jones, Andy le Vien, Charles Reynolds
Wizz Jones chronology
Through the Fingers
(2001)
Lucky the Man
(2001)
Young Fashioned Ways
(2004)
Alternative cover (extended reissue on Hux Records)
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Cover for "Lucky the Man" (extended reissue)

Lucky the Man is the 2001 studio album by the British folk guitarist, singer and songwriter Wizz Jones. The album was re-released on CD in 2007, with additional tracks, on the Hux label; this issue comes with a 12-page booklet including extensive notes, personal comments from Wizz on each of the bonus tracks, plus rare photographs from Jones' personal archive.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Weeping Willow Blues" (Blind Boy Fuller)
  2. "Sermonette" (Nat and Julian Adderley)
  3. "Lucky the Man" (Wizz Jones)
  4. "Paris" (Clive Palmer; arranged by Wizz Jones)
  5. "Omie Wise "(Traditional; arranged by Wizz Jones)
  6. "Mountain Rain" (Archie Fisher)
  7. "In Stormy Weather" (Al Jones)
  8. "Another Summertime" (Wizz Jones)
  9. "Lullaby of Battersea" (Wizz Jones)
  10. "Roving Cowboy (Ballad of Dan Moody)" (Mike Smith)
  11. "Funny (But I Still Love You)" (Ray Charles)
  12. "Blues Run the Game" (Jackson C. Frank)
  13. "Would You Like to Take a Walk?" (Mort Dixon, Billy Rode, Harry Warren)

Additional tracks on 2007 CD release

  1. "About a Spoonful" (Mance Lipscomb)
  2. "Dark Eyed Gypsies" (Traditional; arranged by Wizz Jones)
  3. "Moving On Song" (Ewan MacColl)
  4. "Planet Without a Plan" (Wizz Jones)
  5. "Sugar for Sugar" (Rabbit Brown) [a]
  1. with Ramblin' Jack Elliott, previously unissued

Personnel

Label details

2001 issue

2007 issue

Production