''Faro Annie'' is the 1971 solo album by British folk musician

John Renbourn John Renbourn (8 August 1944 – 26 March 2015) was an English guitarist and songwriter. He was best known for his collaboration with guitarist Bert Jansch as well as his work with the folk group Pentangle, although he maintained a solo care ...

. On this release, Renbourn ventures into

folk rock Folk rock is a hybrid music genre that combines the elements of folk and rock music, which arose in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s. In the U.S., folk rock emerged from the folk music revival. Performers suc ...

and

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

territory. There is also heavy use of the

sitar The sitar ( or ; ) is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument was invented in medieval India, flourished in the 18th century, and arrived at its present form in ...

on this album, played by Renbourn himself. He is joined on the album by Pentangle bandmates

Danny Thompson Daniel Henry Edward Thompson (born 4 April 1939) is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist. He has had a long musical career playing with a large variety of other musicians, particularly Richard Thompson and John Mart ...

and

Terry Cox Terence William Harvey 'Terry' Cox (born 13 March 1937, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) played drums in the British folk rock bands The Pentangle, Duffy's Nucleus and Humblebums. He also drummed with several other artists, most notably D ...

Track listing

Personnel

*John Renbourn - guitar, sitar, harmonica, lead vocals *

- bass on "Shake Shake Mamma" and "Faro Annie" *

Sue Draheim Sue Draheim ( ; August 17, 1949 – April 11, 2013) was an American fiddler, boasting a more than forty year musical career in the US and the UK. Growing up in North Oakland, Draheim began her first private violin lessons at age eleven, having ...

- fiddle on "Little Sadie", "Willy O'Winsbury" and "Country Blues" *Pete Dyer - harmonica on "Kokomo Blues" and "Come On in My Kitchen" *

- drums on "Shake Shake Mamma" and "Faro Annie" *

Dorris Henderson Dorris Henderson (February 2, 1933 – March 3, 2005) was an American-born, United Kingdom-based folk music singer and autoharp player. Early years Born in Lakeland, Florida but raised in Los Angeles, she was the daughter of an African American ...

- vocals on "White House Blues", "Kokomo Blues" and "Back on the Road Again"

Production

*Producer: Bill Leader *Recording Engineer: Nic Kinsey *Art Direction: John Ashcroft *Photography: Shepard Sherbell, Janet Kerr *Liner notes: Colin Harper

References

{{Authority control 1971 albums John Renbourn albums Reprise Records albums Transatlantic Records albums Albums produced by Bill Leader