Banjoland [Import]

Clive Palmer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 28, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sunbeam Records
• ASIN: B000BZDGHI
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #636,365 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Banjoland

2. Boy in the Gallery

3. Christmas Carol

4. Winter's Tale

5. Danse Arlequin

6. Ma-Koush-La

7. Irish Fantasy

8. Stories of Jesus

9. Variations

10. Smiling Through

11. Sea Breeze

12. I Hear You Calling Me

13. Coventry Carol

14. Swanoa Tunnel [*]

15. Fair and Tender Ladies [*]

16. Country Blues [*]

17. Old Maid's Song [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lovely album dug up from the vaults, September 20, 2006

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J. R. P. Wigman "Hans Wigman" (Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Banjoland (Audio CD)

"Banjoland", according to the accompanying notes, was never released back then in 1967 and has slumbered in the vaults for all these years. Thankfully, this fine (but rather short) Clive Palmer album has been brought to light.

The title is quite apt: the cd features Clive on banjo and vocals, accompanied on some tracks by Wizz Jones and on one lovely track (Stories of Jesus) we find (oh indulgence!) a string arrangement. Unadorned, stark and largely instrumental, it is not hard to see why no record company chose to release it at the time, especially since the psychedelic revolution was gaining momentum. Added to the original album are a couple of great bonus tracks, especially the first one which finds Clive and Wizz on a country road ("heeee-haa!").

You wouldn't be reading this if you didn't know Clive Palmer's work. I can therefore skip a lot of explaining and just mention that this album, though far from being on a par with his best work with COB is a fine and characteristic album which I suspect will grow on me as time goes by.