Jackson C. Frank
Complete Recordings Vol. 3
While Jackson C Frank's eponymous 1965 album and other material has enjoyed numerous official and unofficial reissues 'Jackson C Frank The Complete Recordings' is the first to compile his entire recording career Released in conjunction with Jim Abbott's book 'Jackson C Frank The Clear Hard Light of Genius The Complete Recordings' contains a total of 67 tracks 24 of which have never appeared before Every song has been mastered or remastered a number of them straight from the original brittle reeltoreels on which they were originally laid down Plagued by tragedy with the most haunting music to show for it Frank's life can be heard through his music which has been covered by the likes of Nick Drake Simon and Garfunkel Fairport Convention Bert Jansch John Renbourn Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes Colin Meloy of The Decemberists John Mayer South Korean jazz singer Nah Youn Sun French singer Graeme Allwright and sampled by Nas for 'Undying Love' While never fully recognized as one of the great musicians of the '60s Frank clearly had his fans The artist's story is a cautionary tale for the dangerous pitfalls of a life lived At the age of eleven he was the victim of the infamous Cleveland Hill School Fire in a New York suburb leaving him burned and disabled and killing fifteen of his classmates He spent an agonizing eight months in the hospital during which time he picked up a guitar for the first time Scarred both physically and psychologically and left a shell of his former self Frank would never fully recover from the wounds His neverreleased second album was to include the song 'Marlene' which honors his childhood girlfriend lost in the fire After an aborted attempt at college where he formed a folk trio Frank along with a Martin guitar and his thengirlfriend Kathy Henry caught The Queen Elizabeth in February 1965 on which he apocryphally wrote his first and now his most famous song 'Blues Run the Game' He soon found himself making the rounds of the London folk clubs and rubbed shoulders with Jansch Renbourn Roy Harper Dave Van Ronk Tom Paxton Mike Seeger and Sandy Denny who became Jackson's girlfriend and later wrote the somber song 'Next Time Around' about him Frank's music caught the interest of another young American songwriter in London named Paul Simon who offered to record and produce his album Jackson C Frank in 1965 Simon brought Al Stewart along to play guitar while Denny Judith Piepe and Art Garfunkel kept them company and supposedly even ran out for teas for the performer After recording his album however Frank's health took a turn for the worse and the following years were unkind He met future wife Elaine Sedgwick cousin of Edie Sedgwick at a London party and when his money began to run out he left London for Woodstock where they married The relationship was marked by a miscarriage and the death of their firstborn son to cystic fibrosis and Frank's subsequent mental unraveling He was later diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and battled excessive weight gain from a thyroid problem developed after the fire Additionally he went through bouts of intermittent homelessness between stays at various upstate shelters One day while Jackson waited in a park to be moved to a new facility he was shot and blinded in his left eye by neighborhood children with a BB gun The light from this period of his life came from Jim Abbott who looked after Frank until his death in 1999 Frank's recordings span four decades of a hardlived life and every experience every trial is reflected in his voice If ever a person's individual journey could be traced through his music it's Frank's and The Complete Recordings is nothing less than a representative map of the artist's high points and deepest most shadowed valleys While the 1965 debut album has seen intermittent reissues an expanded doubleCD edition appeared in 2003 from Sanctuary with 33 songs that had never appeared before 'Jackson C Frank The Complete Recordings' contains a total of 67 tracks including all the Sanctuary material plus 24 more songs 3CD 3CD Set LP Double LP Volume One LP Double LP Volume Two 2LP Double LP Volume Three lt Style Definitions pMsoNormal liMsoNormal divMsoNormalmsostyleparent'margin0cmmarginbottom0001ptmsopaginationwidoworphanfontsize120ptfontfamily'Times New Roman'msofareastfontfamily'Times New Roman'msobidifontfamily'Times New Roman'msofareastlanguageENGB@page Section1size6120pt 7920ptmargin720pt 900pt 720pt 900ptmsoheadermargin360ptmsofootermargin360ptmsopapersource0divSection1pageSection1gt
Tracklist
1. Marlene
2. Marcy?s Song
3. Madonna of Swans
4. Relations
5. Cover Me With Roses
6. Cryin? Like a Baby
7. Spanish Moss
8. The Visit
9. Have You Seen the Unicorns
10. Night of the Blues
11. (Tumble) In the Wind
12. The Spectre
13. Half the Distance
14. Bull Men
15. Maria Spanish Rose
16. Singing Sailors
17. Night of the Blues
18. (Tumble) In the Wind
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