Trad Arr Jones

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Trad Arr Jones
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 9, 1999 (1999-02-09)
RecordedNovember 19, 1998 (1998-11-19) - November 21, 1998 (1998-11-21)
Genre Folk rock
Length73:09
Label Zero Hour Records
John Wesley Harding chronology
Dynablob 2
(1998)
Trad Arr Jones
(1999)
Dynablob 3
(1999)

Trad Arr Jones is a tribute album to Nic Jones by British-American folk singer John Wesley Harding. The album consists of Harding's covers of Jones' arrangements of eleven traditional songs, hence the album's title, which is short for "Traditional, Arranged by Jones". [1] It is very different from Harding's previous albums, partly because Harding used to dislike English folk music like Jones'. [2]

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CMJ New Music Monthly (favorable) [5]
Exclaim! (favorable) [6]
No Depression (favorable) [7]
Orlando Weekly (favorable) [8]
Pitchfork Media 7.3/10 [1]
The Washington Post (mixed) [9]

Track listing

  1. The Singer's Request
  2. Little Musgrave
  3. The Golden Glove
  4. Annachie Gordon
  5. The Flandyke Shore
  6. William And Nancy's Parting
  7. William Glenn
  8. The Bonny Bunch Of Roses
  9. Master Kilby
  10. Annan Water
  11. Isle Of France

Bonus Tracks on Appleseed Recordings 2000 Reissue

  1. Canadee-i-o
  2. Billy, Don't You Weep for Me
  3. Edward
  4. The Humpback Whale

Personnel

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References

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  2. "John Wesley Harding - Keeping up with the (Nic) Joneses". No Depression. 28 February 1999.
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  8. "Review - Trad Arr Jones". Orlando Weekly. 14 April 1999.
  9. Jenkins, Mark (16 April 1999). "Trad Arr Jones Review". The Washington Post.