John Renbourn - So Clear: The John Renbourn Sampler Volume Two


Sleeve Notes: John Renbourn is essentially a miniaturist.
Whether he takes his inspiration from the Delta Blues or from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, everything is crystallized into a microcosm as charming as a snowstorm in a paperweight.
(Karl Dallas, The Times, 3 February 1971)

Renbourn is a model of equanimity who avoids manifesting any kind of emotion,. His cultural involvement is just one reason for thinking that he might have lived in the sixteenth century.
Instead his use of volume and his electric guitar work provided an etymological meaning to the term 'folk-blues' in the mid-sixties, and gave some purpose to the young folk club guitarists whose tender roots had not penetrated down as far as Broonzy, Blind Boy Fuller or Blind Lemon Jefferson.
(Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 26 December 1970)"

Thanks to Hugh Townley for the listing and scan

Transatlantic TRA SAM 28 1973


  1. Lady Goes To Church (2:48)(from TRA 167)
  2. Another Monday (1:49) (from TRA 149)
  3. Shake Shake Mamma (3:20) with Terry Cox, drums, Danny Thompson, bass
    (from TRA 247).
  4. a Bransle Gay (1:12)
    b Bransle De Bourgogne (1:34) with Dave Swarbrick, fiddle, Ray
    Warliegh, flute (from TRA 224)
  5. So Clear (4:51) with Terry Cox, drums, Danny Thompson, bass (from TRA
    240)
  6. The Lady And The Unicorn (3:23) (from TRA 224)
  7. Plainsong (3:45) from (TRA 135)
  8. Blues Run The Game (3:04) (Previously Unissued)
  9. Waltz (1:58) (from TRA 149)
  10. Westron Wynde (1:22) (from TRA 224)
  11. The Cuckoo (3:53) (from TRA 247)
  12. Transfusion (1:58) with Sue Draheim, fiddle (from TRA 247)