Title: Pentangle's Finest....
Product review: Perhaps the first Brit-Folk Supergroup, Pentangle harnessed the talents of jazz bassist and drummer Danny Thompson & Terry Cox, classical/blues guitarist John Renbourn, blues/folk guitarist Bert Jansch, and vocalsit par excellence Jacqui McShee. It was always a fairly volatile set-up with so much talent around, but at its best (as on this wonderful album) it produced music of timeless quality. The hook track for this, their biggest seller, was "Light Flight", as haunting and enchanting a melody as you could wish to hear, and which had received a lot of exposure in Britain as the signature tune to a popular TV drama ("Take Three Girls"). Other highlights here are the heartbreaking "Once I had a Sweetheart", Jansch's wry "Springtime Promises", the tour de force "Hunting Song" and the other-worldly (literally) "Lake-Wyke Dirge". The quality of musicianship is superb throughout. Pentangles's finest album, and one of the finest folk albums of all time.
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