Lazy Farmer (album)

Lazy Farmer
Studio album by Lazy Farmer/Wizz Jones
Released	May 1975
Recorded	January 1975
Genre	Folk, folk rock
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Producer	, Wizz Jones
Wizz Jones chronology
Soloflight (1974) Lazy Farmer (1975) Happiness Was Free (1976)

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Lazy Farmer is the 1975 album by British folk rock group Lazy Farmer. This short-lived group consisted of pioneer British folk musician Wizz Jones, his wife , and . The album was dedicated to American banjo player , whose book "Fiddle Tunes for the Banjo" inspired the formation of Lazy Farmer. The album was recorded at Conny Plank's countryside studio in Cologne, Germany.

Track listing[]

1. "Lazy Farmer" (Traditional)
2. "Standing Down in New York Town" (Ralph McTell)
3. "Railroad Boy" (Traditional)
4. "Soldier's Joy/Arkansas Traveller" (Traditional/Sanford Faulkner)
5. "Turtle Dove" (Traditional)
6. "John Lover's Gone" (Traditional)
7. "Johnson Boys" (Traditional)
8. "Love Song" (Derroll Adams)
9. "The Cuckoo" (Clarence Ashley/Hobart Smith)
10. "Sally in the Garden/Liberty" (Traditional)
11. "Gypsy Davey" (Traditional/Woody Guthrie)
12. "When I Leave Berlin" (Wizz Jones)

Personnel[]

• Wizz Jones - acoustic guitar, vocals
• - banjo, vocals
• - guitar, flue, flageolet, vocals
• - guitar, dulcimer, hurdy-gurdy, vocals
• - banjo

Production[]

• Producer: Carsten Linde/Wizz Jones
• Recording Engineer: Conny Plank
• Cover Design: Jerken Diederich/Annette Welke
• Photography: Fern Mehring

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