{"title":"John Renbourn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Renbourn (born 8 August 1944, Marylebone, London, England; died 26 March 2015, Hawick, Scotland) was an English fingerstyle guitarist, singer and songwriter. He gained recognition for his work in the group Pentangle and his collaborations with Stefan Grossman, Bert Jansch and Robin Williamson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRenbourn's musical style encompassed various genres including folk music, blues, early classical music and world music. His talent as a fingerstyle guitarist and his unique vocal abilities set him apart in the industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout his career, Renbourn released numerous solo recordings that showcased his versatility as a musician. His contributions to the folk music scene were significant and he influenced many artists such as Anne Briggs, Davy Graham and Sandy Denny. Renbourn's legacy continues to inspire generations of musicians.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"another-monday","title":"Another Monday","description":"\u003cp\u003erenbourn's wonderful 1996 album of folk-blues released shortly before the formation of the legendary pentangle. featuring future pentangle vocalist jacqui mcshee on three tracks, this fine album should sit alongside your jansch records quite happily. in the man's own words: 'this is the follow-up as it were to 'john renbourn,' the building site album — the moonlight demo studio tapes having been taken by the little transatlantic company, probably because they were going cheap. by now i had a new guitar, a gibson j-50 to be like davey graham, bought from an american airman for fifty pounds and replacing the trusty scarth (only a fiver). i also had a contract and a change of clothes and naively expected recording conditions to improve. they did, but not to the extent of a fancy studio, more to bill leader's kitchen. in fact i could have done a lot worse. bill had a recorded history of great stuff going back to pre-topic days. he came within my realm of idolization by having recorded ramblin' jack elliott on \"jack takes the floor.\" jacqui mcshee sang on a couple of songs that we used to do together in places like the cousins, documenting for the first time our inimitable 'blind willie and angeline johnson meets miki and griff' approach. so by now the pre pentangle assemblage was assembling. the title track was named after the monday market near the art school in kingston and borrowed ideas that i had heard davey playing. another short guitar piece.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD.","offer_id":50405584404811,"sku":"321984","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/cc51e6ab-6213-499f-9aea-fc41229dda23_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726579481"},{"product_id":"live-in-kyoto-1978","title":"Live in Kyoto 1978","description":"\u003cp\u003eRegardless of whether or not you consider yourself a newbie or an old guard in the world of John Renbourn, \u003ci\u003eLive in Kyoto 1978\u003c\/i\u003e showcases the talent and magnetism of a celebrated legend in the midst of his prime on a particularly hot night a long way from home. John's stunning rendition of the oft-covered English trad number, \u003ci\u003eThe Cuckoo\u003c\/i\u003e, proves this point fantastically. His swift finger-picking sounds as if the guitar is playing itself and renders the packed crowd absolutely speechless - a singular effect of Renbourn's gift. On this night (as on many others, we assume), the audience and performer were united as one. This live version of \u003ci\u003eThe Cuckoo\u003c\/i\u003e could be one of Renbourn's most enchanting performances ever! \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drag City","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50411043422539,"sku":"1036518","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50411050467659,"sku":"1036520","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/fde9fda2-e7f4-46ed-bb46-40b88844484d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726651928"},{"product_id":"my-heart-4","title":"My Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter years of traveling, bassist Jeff Johnson made Seattle home in the late '80s where he settled quickly into a musically rich existence\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Origin","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50430177542475,"sku":"2200226","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_b6edee72_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726845150"},{"product_id":"the-attic-tapes","title":"The Attic Tapes","description":"\u003cp\u003eLovingly mastered from old tapes found in a friend's attic, this is a vintage  collection of previously unreleased rarities and early works by one of the guitar's truly great innovators.  A remarkable guitarist dedicated to innovation and technical mastery who blended elements of English and Celtic folk, jazz, country blues, pre-Renaissance and Western\/Eastern classical traditions, John Renbourn achieved world-wide acclaim with the band Pentangle. He was an inspirational musician who has influenced so many of today's great guitarists.  The Attic Tapes represents in John's own words, \"what was happening to me at the time and a reflection of the general scene\". These recordings were made in the two or three years before his first ever official release for Transatlantic Records, released in February 1966.  Lovingly mastered from a series of long lost tapes dating back to the early 1960s, the album not only features collaborations with Davy Graham and Beverley Martyn, it also includes a long lost version of Davy's classic \"Anji\" recorded in 1962. It includes sleeve notes by John, written shortly before his death in March 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Riverboat","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50439051346251,"sku":"394673","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a94f4bd8-db16-4f4f-b950-df8d65de6910_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726950651"},{"product_id":"a-maid-in-bremen-live-at-roemer-bremen-feb-14th-1978","title":"A Maid In Bremen (live At Roemer, Bremen Feb. 14th 1978)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1967 the British guitarist and songwriter John Renbourn together with his friend Bert Jansch founded the British folk rock band Pentangle. Like Jansch, Renbourn was considered an outstanding representative of the British \"Folk Baroque\" and fingerpicking playing technique. Since 1968 Renbourn successfully recorded several albums with Pentangle for the well-known UK folk\/folk rock label Transatlantic. After the release of the album \u003ci\u003eSolomon's Seal\u003c\/i\u003e in 1973, the band members went separate ways. From then on Bert Jansch and John Renbourn realized solo plans. Albums like \u003ci\u003eThe Lady And The Unicorn\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Hermit\u003c\/i\u003e by John Renbourn are still considered milestones today of British folk rock. In 1977 John founded the John Renbourn Group, recorded two studio albums and a live album with them and was busy touring again around the world. A 1978 live-recording by Radio Bremen from the Roemer in Bremen\/Germany also bears witness to these live activities. Again with John on stage: the former Pentangle singer Jaqui McShee. Multi-instrumentalist Tony Roberts, the well-known Indian tabla player Keshav Sathe (among others: John Mayer, Julie Felix) and the American cellist Sandy Spencer (member of the French based Prog. Folkrockband Mormos, later also with the well-known Trevor Watts String Ensemble) completed the line-up of the John Renbourn Group in Bremen that night. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacqui McShee, who also wrote the liner notes for the booklet to this album, still remembers the Bremen concert: \"To my knowledge this is the only recording of Sandy with the group, she left soon afterwards to return to America.\" And goes on: \"I have been chatting to Tony recently (we laughed a lot) and of course we both miss John and Kesh, but we have these wonderful recordings and the albums that we made and we have a sense of pride in the music we played together.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mig Music","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50473615262027,"sku":"1113433","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/4f115117-8f41-4949-9a9c-2ed55ac5c73a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727430085"},{"product_id":"unpentangled-the-sixties-albums","title":"Unpentangled - The Sixties Albums","description":"\u003cp\u003eLong acknowledged as one of the greatest and most influential acoustic guitarists to emerge from the British folk scene, the late John Renbourn is best known to the wider world for his membership of Pentangle, the genre-busting band that he was instrumental in bringing together in 1967. Pentangle’s recordings are widely available, most recently with Cherry Red’s 2017 highly-acclaimed box set \u003ci\u003ePentangle: The Albums\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, Renbourn recorded extensively both before and during the band’s early genesis, with a trio of solo albums joined by two vital collaborations with American-born folk singer Dorris Henderson as well as \u003ci\u003eBert And John\u003c\/i\u003e, his joint album with Bert Jansch in 1966. Housed in a clamshell box that boasts replica album sleeves, some very rare photos and a new essay on the man, the 6-CD set Unpentangled anthologises that essential but often overlooked body of early work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe set also contains a clutch of bonus tracks from the same period (including amarvellous psychedelic folk rendition of the Love song \u003ci\u003eMessage To Pretty\u003c\/i\u003e) to shine the solo spotlight on a man that folk club organiser and future ZigZag founder Pete Frame once dubbed “the stoned Julian Bream of folk guitar”.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cherry Tree","offers":[{"title":"6CD","offer_id":50508466258251,"sku":"1060639","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/1ffbfd43-1741-40d5-b171-b538dd1ba5f8_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727859074"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/john-renbourn.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}