Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C Frank (Remastered) (2001 Remastered Version) '1965/2001

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       Jackson C. Frank's original 1965 album is a lost classic, daringly
complex and honest, filled with virtuoso playing that is all the more impressive
for the offhanded way that Frank makes it look so easy. There is a convergence
of elements here that may confuse the uninitiated, because of their seeming
contradictions -- a flashiness and assertiveness on the acoustic guitars and the
approach to singing on numbers like "Don't Look Back" and "Yellow Walls" that
are byproducts of Frank's early history as a rock & roller, a depth and
complexity of blues playing that derives from life as much as from talent and
dexterity; and the meld of American and English folk sounds is like nothing that
any listener has heard from either side of the Atlantic anywhere else. Derived
from a song bag that included "Blues Run the Game," "Yellow Walls," "My Name Is
Carnival," and "You Never Wanted Me," the album is kind of overpowering --
rather ironically, it's the downbeat nature of those same songs that likely
would have prevented Jackson C. Frank from being anything much more than a major
cult favorite; even "Blues Run the Game," for all of its beauty, has an
underlying sadness that makes it difficult to hear, at least in its album
version. [The 2002 reissue by Castle Records has five bonus tracks from an
attempted 1975 comeback by Frank, which are still extremely impressive and
perhaps even more attractive in their lyrical and musical complexity. This
expanded album was later folded into the Frank double-CD anthology titled Blues
Run the Game, from Sanctuary Records.]

Tracklist:
1.01 - Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run the Game  (2001 Remaster) (3:32)
1.02 - Jackson C. Frank - Don't Look Back  (2001 Remaster) (2:57)
1.03 - Jackson C. Frank - Kimbie  (2001 Remaster) (3:14)
1.04 - Jackson C. Frank - Yellow Walls  (2001 Remaster) (3:00)
1.05 - Jackson C. Frank - Here Come the Blues  (2001 Remaster) (4:01)
1.06 - Jackson C. Frank - Milk and Honey  (2001 Remaster) (3:37)
1.07 - Jackson C. Frank - My Name Is Carnival  (2001 Remaster) (3:45)
1.08 - Jackson C. Frank - I Want to Be Alone (Dialogue)  (2001 Remaster) (3:18)
1.09 - Jackson C. Frank - Just Like Anything  (2001 Remaster) (2:22)
1.10 - Jackson C. Frank - You Never Wanted Me  (2001 Remaster) (3:08)
1.11 - Jackson C. Frank - Marlene  (2001 Remaster) (4:46)
1.12 - Jackson C. Frank - Marcy's Song  (2001 Remaster) (4:21)
1.13 - Jackson C. Frank - The Visit  (2001 Remaster) (4:46)
1.14 - Jackson C. Frank - Prima Donna of Swans  (2001 Remaster) (5:03)
1.15 - Jackson C. Frank - Relations  (2001 Remaster) (3:47) 

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