Pentangle / Reflection (US, Reprise Records, RS 6463) <October 1971>

Pentangle / Reflection (US, Reprise Records, RS 6463) <October 1971>
(SIDE 1) RS-6463 31278-1B
(SIDE 2) RS-6463 31279-1A

Bert Jansch – acoustic guitar, banjo, vocals
John Renbourn – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals
Danny Thompson – double bass
Terry Cox – drums, percussion, vocals
Jacqui McShee – vocals

Reflection was an album recorded in 1971 by folk-rock band Pentangle.The album was recorded over a three-week period in March 1971, at a time when the tensions between the band members were high. Different band members were continually threatening to leave and attendance by Jansch and Renbourn at the recording sessions was dependent on their state of sobriety.

1971年の5作目。ペンタングルのアルバムとしては初めて、アメリカ白人層の伝承歌を本格的に取り上げ作品として有名です。録音時のメンバーの関係は最悪だったそうです。

ちなみに"Will the Circle Be Unbroken?"は1907年に作られたカントリーのスタンダードで、僕が知っている最古の録音は1927年のカーター・ファミリーの演奏です。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w00hxAOLso

There are loved ones in the glory
Whose dear forms you often miss.
When you close your earthly story,
Will you join them in their bliss?

CHORUS:
Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, by and by?
Is a better home awaiting
In the sky, in the sky?

In the joyous days of childhood
Oft they told of wondrous love
Pointed to the dying Saviour;
Now they dwell with Him above.

(Chorus)

You remember songs of heaven
Which you sang with childish voice.
Do you love the hymns they taught you,
Or are songs of earth your choice?

(Chorus)

You can picture happy gath'rings
Round the fireside long ago,
And you think of tearful partings
When they left you here below.

(Chorus)

One by one their seats were emptied.
One by one they went away.
Now the family is parted.
Will it be complete one day?

(Chorus)