# Sweet Child

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{{For|the Guns N' Roses song|Sweet Child o' Mine}}
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{{Infobox album
| name         = Sweet Child
| type         = studio
| artist       = [Pentangle](/source/Pentangle_(band))
| cover        = Sweetchild.png
| released     = 1 November 1968
| recorded     = [Royal Festival Hall](/source/Royal_Festival_Hall), London,<br />29 June 1968 and<br />[IBC Studios](/source/IBC_Studios) 1968
| venue        = 
| studio       = 
| genre        = [Folk](/source/Folk_music), [folk rock](/source/folk_rock), [folk jazz](/source/folk_jazz)<ref name=allmusic/>
| length       = 80:13
| label        = [Transatlantic](/source/Transatlantic_Records)
| producer     = [Shel Talmy](/source/Shel_Talmy)
| prev_title   = [The Pentangle](/source/The_Pentangle_(album))
| prev_year    = 1968
| year         = 1968
| next_title   = [Basket of Light](/source/Basket_of_Light)
| next_year    = 1969
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 =  [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic)
| rev1Score =  {{Rating|4.5|5}} <ref name=allmusic>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r108102|pure_url=yes}} link]</ref>
| rev2 =  ''[Rolling Stone](/source/Rolling_Stone)''
| rev2Score =  ''(positive)'' <ref>{{cite web |url= |title= Records|last= Von Tersch|first= Gary|date= March 15, 1969|publisher= [Rolling Stone](/source/Rolling_Stone_(magazine))}}</ref>
}}
'''''Sweet Child''''' is a 1968 double album by the British folk-rock band [Pentangle](/source/Pentangle_(band)): [Terry Cox](/source/Terry_Cox), [Bert Jansch](/source/Bert_Jansch), [Jacqui McShee](/source/Jacqui_McShee), [John Renbourn](/source/John_Renbourn) and [Danny Thompson](/source/Danny_Thompson).

==Background==
One disk of the double album was recorded at Pentangle's live concert in the [Royal Festival Hall](/source/Royal_Festival_Hall), which took place on 29 June 1968; the other was recorded in the studio. The material is the most wide-ranging of Pentangle's albums, including folk songs, jazz classics, blues, early music and Pentangle's own compositions. The album cover was designed by [Peter Blake](/source/Peter_Blake_(artist)), better-known for his design of [The Beatles](/source/The_Beatles)' ''[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band](/source/Sgt._Pepper's_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band)'' album.

==Reception==
In his retrospective review for [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic), Matthew Greenwald called the album, "probably the most representative of their work... In all, Sweet Child is an awesome and delightful collection, and probably their finest hour."<ref name=allmusic />

==Track listing==

{{Tracklist
| headline = Royal Festival Hall
| extra_column = Lead vocals
| title1 = Market Song
| writer1 = [Terry Cox](/source/Terry_Cox), [Bert Jansch](/source/Bert_Jansch), [Jacqui McShee](/source/Jacqui_McShee), [John Renbourn](/source/John_Renbourn), [Danny Thompson](/source/Danny_Thompson)
| extra1 = Jansch and McShee
| length1 = 4:23
| title2 = No More My Lord
| writer2 = Traditional; arranged by Cox, Jansch, McShee, Renbourn and Thompson
| extra2 = McShee
| length2 = 4:05
| title3 = [Turn Your Money Green](/source/Turn_Your_Money_Green)
| writer3 = Traditional
| extra3 = McShee and Renbourn
| length3 = 2:59
| title4 = Haitian Fight Song
| writer4 = [Charles Mingus](/source/Charles_Mingus)
| extra4 = None
| length4 = 3:52
| title5 = A Woman Like You
| writer5 = Jansch
| extra5 = Jansch
| length5 = 4:06
| title6 = [Goodbye Pork Pie Hat](/source/Goodbye_Pork_Pie_Hat)
| writer6 = Mingus
| extra6 = None
| length6 = 3:48
| title7 = Three Dances
*I. "Brentzel Gay" ([Claude Gervaise](/source/Claude_Gervaise); arranged by Renbourn and Cox)
*II. "La Rotta" (Traditional; arranged by Renbourn and Cox)
*III. "The Earle of Salisbury" ([William Byrd](/source/William_Byrd))
| extra7 = None
| length7 = 4:57
| title8 = Watch the Stars
| writer8 = Traditional; arranged by McShee and Renbourn
| extra8 = Renbourn and McShee
| length8 = 3:11
| title9 = So Early In the Spring
| writer9 = Traditional; arranged by McShee
| extra9 = McShee
| length9 = 3:37
| title10 = No Exit
| writer10 = Jansch, Renbourn
| extra10 = None
| length10 = 2:22
| title11 = The Time Has Come
| writer11 = [Anne Briggs](/source/Anne_Briggs)
| extra11 = McShee
| length11 = 3:14
| title12 = [Bruton Town](/source/Bruton_Town)
| writer12 = Traditional; arranged by Cox, Jansch, McShee, Renbourn and Thompson
| extra12 = McShee and Jansch
| length12 = 6:27
}}
{{Tracklist
| headline = CD bonus tracks
| title13 = Hear My Call
| length13 = 3:48
| title14 = [Let No Man Steal Your Thyme](/source/Let_No_Man_Steal_Your_Thyme)
| length14 = 2:59
| title15 = Bells
| length15 = 4:45
| title16 = Travelling Song
| length16 = 4:17
| title17 = Waltz
| length17 = 6:00
| title18 = Way Behind the Sun
| length18 = 2:59
| title19 = John Donne Song
| length19 = 3:24
}}
{{Tracklist
| headline = IBC Studios
| extra_column = Lead vocals
| title1 = Sweet Child
| writer1 = Cox, Jansch, McShee, Renbourn, Thompson
| extra1 = Jansch and McShee
| length1 = 5:15
| title2 = [I Loved a Lass](/source/I_Loved_a_Lass)
| writer2 = Traditional; arranged by Cox, Jansch, McShee, Renbourn and Thompson
| extra2 = Jansch
| length2 = 2:44
| title3 = Three Part Thing
| writer3 = Jansch, Renbourn, Thompson
| extra3 = None
| length3 = 2:29
| title4 = [Sovay](/source/Sovay)
| writer4 = Traditional; arranged by Cox, Jansch, McShee, Renbourn and Thompson
| extra4 = McShee
| length4 = 2:51
| title5 = In Time
| writer5 = Cox, Jansch, Renbourn, Thompson
| extra5 = None
| length5 = 5:09
| title6 = In Your Mind
| writer6 = Cox, Jansch, McShee, Renbourn, Thompson
| extra6 = Jansch
| length6 = 2:16
| title7 = I've Got a Feeling
| writer7 = Cox, Jansch, McShee, Renbourn, Thompson
| extra7 = McShee
| length7 = 4:29
| title8 = [The Trees They Do Grow High](/source/The_Trees_They_Do_Grow_High)
| writer8 = Traditional; arranged by Cox, Jansch, McShee, Renbourn and Thompson
| extra8 = McShee
| length8 = 3:51
| title9 = Moon Dog
| writer9 = Cox
| extra9 = Cox
| length9 = 2:44
| title10 = Hole in the Coal
| writer10 = [Ewan MacColl](/source/Ewan_MacColl)
| extra10 = None
| length10 = 5:23
}}
{{Tracklist
| headline = CD bonus tracks
| title11 = Hole in the Coal
| note11 = alternate version
| length11 = 2:44
| title12 = The Trees They Do Grow High
| note12 = alternate version
| length12 = 3:52
| title13 = Haitian Fight Song
| note13 = studio version
| length13 = 4:20
| title14 = In Time
| note14 = alternate version
| length14 = 4:40
}}

==Charts==
{|class="wikitable 
|-
!scope="col"| Chart (1972)
!Peak<br />position
|-
|Australia ([Kent Music Report](/source/Kent_Music_Report))<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=232}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| 55
|}

==Personnel==
;Pentangle
*[Jacqui McShee](/source/Jacqui_McShee) - vocals
*[Bert Jansch](/source/Bert_Jansch) - acoustic guitar, vocals
*[John Renbourn](/source/John_Renbourn) - acoustic guitar, vocals
*[Danny Thompson](/source/Danny_Thompson) - double bass
*[Terry Cox](/source/Terry_Cox) - drums, [glockenspiel](/source/glockenspiel), vocals
;Technical
*[Peter Blake](/source/Peter_Blake_(artist)) - design

==Released versions==

''Sweet Child'' was originally released in the UK, as a double LP, on 1 November 1968 as Transatlantic TRA178. The US release, in the same year, was Reprise  2R56334. A CD version was released in 1992 as Line TACD9005. Some of the stage banter in the live section has been cut from this version. In 2001, a digitally remastered version was released  as Castle CMDDD132, including several versions of some of the studio takes and some additional songs from the Festival Hall concert: "Hear my Call", "Let No Man Steal Your Thyme", "Bells", "Travelling Song", "Waltz", "Way Behind The Sun" and "Go and Catch a Falling Star".

== References ==
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{{Pentangle}}

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Category:1968 albums
Category:Pentangle (band) albums
Category:Albums produced by Shel Talmy
Category:1968 live albums
Category:Transatlantic Records albums
Category:Transatlantic Records live albums
Category:Albums with cover art by Peter Blake (artist)
Category:Albums recorded at IBC Studios

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