Basket of Light

Studio album by Pentangle

Released

October 1969

Recorded

IBC Studios, London

Genre

Folk jazz, folk rock^[1]

Length

40:07

Pentangle chronology

Sweet Child
(1968)

Basket of Light
(1969)

Cruel Sister
(1970)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Basket of Light is a 1969 album by the folk rock group Pentangle. It reached #5 on the UK charts largely on the basis of the single "Light Flight" (#43 UK), the theme from BBC1's first colour drama series Take Three Girls. Another single from the album, "Once I Had a Sweetheart", reached number 46 in the charts.^[2]

The album's liner notes state that "Springtime Promises" was written "after a ride on a number 74 bus from Gloucester Road to Greencroft Gardens on an early spring day".

Tracks

All songs written and composed by Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Danny Thompson, Terry Cox, and Jacqui McShee, except as noted.

Side one
No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Light Flight"	McShee	3:14
2.	"Once I Had a Sweetheart" (traditional, arranged Jansch/Renbourn/Thompson/Cox/McShee)	McShee	4:37
3.	"Springtime Promises"	Jansch	4:04
4.	"Lyke-Wake Dirge" (traditional, arranged Jansch/Renbourn/Thompson/Cox/McShee)	Renbourn, Cox, and McShee	3:32
5.	"Train Song"	Jansch and McShee	4:43

Side two
No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Hunting Song"	McShee, Jansch, Renbourn, and Cox	6:41
2.	"Sally Go 'Round the Roses" (Lona Stevens, Zell Sanders)	Renbourn and McShee	3:34
3.	"The Cuckoo" (traditional, arranged Jansch/Renbourn/Thompson/Cox/McShee)	McShee	4:26
4.	"House Carpenter" (traditional, arranged Jansch/Renbourn/Thompson/Cox/McShee)	Jansch and McShee	5:27

The album cover uses photographs of Pentangle's 1968 concert in the Royal Albert Hall. A note about the instrumentation states that "All the instruments played on this album are accoustic [sic]."

Personnel

Terry Cox – drums, glockenspiel, hand drum, lead and backing vocals
Bert Jansch – lead and backing vocals, guitar, banjo on "House Carpenter"
Jacqui McShee – lead and backing vocals
John Renbourn – lead and backing vocals, guitar, sitar
Danny Thompson – double bass
Shel Talmy – producer
Damon Lyon-Shaw – engineer
John Pantry – engineer

Released versions

Basket of Light was released as a UK LP on 26 October 1969, as Transatlantic TRA2O5. The U.S. version, in the same year was Reprise R56372. The album was re-released as a digitally remastered CD in 2001, as Castle CMRCD207, which includes two alternate takes of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" and the non-album B-sides: "Cold Mountain" and "I Saw an Angel".

References

1 2 Basket of Light at AllMusic
↑ Pentangle UK chart history, The Official Charts Company. Retrieved March 27, 2012.

External links

Pentangle

Jacqui McShee Gerry Conway Spencer Cozens Alan Thomson Gary Foote Bert Jansch Terry Cox Danny Thompson John Renbourn Mike Piggott Nigel Portman Smith Rod Clements Peter Kirtley Jerry Underwood

Studio albums	The Pentangle Sweet Child Basket of Light Cruel Sister Reflection Solomon's Seal Open the Door In the Round So Early in the Spring Think of Tomorrow One More Road

Live albums	Sweet Child Live 1994

Compilation albums	This is Pentangle History Book Pentangling The Pentangle Collection Anthology At Their Best Essential Vol 1 Essential Vol 2 Collection A Maid That's Deep in Love Early Classics Anniversary People on the Highway, 1968–1971 Light Flight The Pentangle Family Light Flight: The Anthology Pentangling: The Collection The Time Has Come

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