Jackson C. Frank - The Complete Recordings (2015)

While Jackson C. Frank's eponymous 1965 album and other material has enjoyed numerous official and unofficial reissues, Jackson C Frank: The Complete Recordings is the first to compile his entire recording career. Released in conjunction with Jim Abbott's book, Jackson C. Frank: The Clear Hard Light of Genius, The Complete Recordings contains a total of 67 tracks, 24 of which have never appeared before. Every song has been mastered or remastered, a number of them straight from the original, brittle reel-to-reels on which they were originally laid down. If ever a person's individual journey could be traced through his music, it's Frank's, and The Complete Recordings is nothing less than a representative map of the artist's high points and deepest, most shadowed valleys. While the 1965 debut album has seen intermittent reissues, an expanded double-CD edition appeared in 2003 from Sanctuary, with 33 songs that had never appeared before. Jackson C Frank: The Complete Recordings contains a total of 67 tracks, including all the Sanctuary material, plus 24 more songs.

TRACKLIST

CD1:
Jackson C. Frank (1965)
01 Blues Run The Game 03:31
02 Don't Look Back 02:58
03 Kimbie 03:14
04 Yellow Walls 02:59
05 Here Come The Blues 04:01
06 Milk And Honey 03:38
07 My Name Is Carnival 03:45
08 Dialogue (I Want To Be Alone) 03:18
09 Just Like Anything 02:22
10 You Never Wanted Me 03:09
Mark & Jackson Talkin' And Signifiyin' (1961)
11 I've Been 'Buked & I've Been Scorned 03:44
12 Gospel Plow 01:56
13 CC Rider 03:44
14 Banana Boat Song 02:44
15 Frankie & Johnny 03:33
16 John Henry 03:30
17 In The Pines 03:09
18 John Henry's Hammer 04:18
Peaches & Crust (1961)
19 Ananias 01:34
20 Borrow Love And Go 02:08
21 Jesse James 03:03
22 Last Month of the Year 02:56
23 Washington Jail 02:36

CD2:
Blues Run The Game 7" (1965)
01 Blues Run The Game [Single Version] 02:49
02 Can't Get Away From My Love 02:50
Mekeel Sessions (1975)
03 Marlene 04:55
04 Marcy's Song 04:28
05 Madonna of Swans 05:12
06 Relations 03:54
07 Cover Me With Roses 02:18
08 Cryin' Like A Baby 03:33
09 Spanish Moss 03:51
10 The Visit 04:55
11 Have You Seen The Unicorns 00:36
Shotwell Sessions (1972)
12 Juliette 04:40
13 China Blue 04:18
14 Madonna of Swans 02:01
Rude Sessions (1974)
15 Box Canyon 03:02
16 Cover Me With Roses 02:29
17 Spanish Moss 04:28
18 Stitch In Time 02:35
Howell Sessions (1957)
19 Heartbreak Hotel 02:25
20 Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me / Precious Lord 02:38

CD3:
Peel Sessions (1968)
01 Blues Run The Game 03:22
02 My Name Is Carnival 04:03
03 Jimmy Clay 04:08
04 Just Like Anything 02:06
05 You Never Wanted Me 02:58
Mekeel Sessions (1975)
06 Juliette 03:00
07 Instrumental 02:35
The Kitchen Tapes (1997)
08 Night Of The Blues [Version 1] 02:03
09 (Tumble) In The Wind [Version 1] 02:41
10 The Spectre 02:00
11 Half The Distance 02:36*
12 Bull Men 02:14
13 Maria Spanish Rose 02:49
14 Singing Sailors 02:46
15 Night Of The Blues [Version 2] 03:50*
16 (Tumble) In The Wind [Version 2] 03:09
Anderson Sessions (1994)
17 Goodbye (To My Loving You) 03:57
18 October 04:06
19 Mystery 02:35
20 I Don't Want To Love You No More 02:38
21 Child Fixin' To Die 02:57
22 Halloween Is Black As Night 02:42
Peaches & Crust (1961)
23 In The Pines 03:29
24 On My Way To The Canaan Land 02:51

*As with the previous release of The Kitchen Tapes, songs "Half the Distance" (disc 3, track 15) and "Night of the Blues (Version 2)" (disc 3, track 11) are switched around and mislabeled.