- folk rock, rock
- 45 min
- 12 tracks
- Cooking Vinyl
Toy Balloon is the 20th album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch released in 1998.
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Spare, grave, intimate and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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Tracks
- 1Carnival4:26
- 2She Moved Through the Fair4:56
- 3All I Got3:16
- 4Bett's Dance2:46
- 5Toy Balloon (For Little Anna-Rebecca)3:33
- 6Waitin' & Wonderin'4:14
- 7Hey Doc2:46
- 8Sweet Talking Lady3:59
- 9Paper Houses3:01
- 10Born and Bred in Old Ireland3:10
- 11How It All Came Down4:41
- 12Just a Simple Soul3:54
12 tracks, 45 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Bert Jansch
- Label
- Cooking Vinyl
- Released
- March 30, 1998
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- GB
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