This collection, features traditional folk songs recorded by the obscure but respected folksinger Nic Jones. Trad Arr Jones is
John Wesley Harding's tribute to Nic's arrangements, song choices and performances. With little more than acoustic guitars and occasional accordion, Harding lights into ageless tales of unrequited love in which women are maidens and men are sailors forever lost at sea. Recorded over three days in a Seattle studio, Trad Arr Jones is a deceptively simple, powerfully immediate collection that casts its creator firmly in the troubadour tradition.


Notes to New Edition:
When I sent Nic Jones a copy of the first edition of Trad Arr Jones, I got the impression that, because he'd heard a couple of my previous records, he had expected the whole project to rock out a little more: perhaps he thought there was a lack of bass and drums. So when Appleseed offered to reissue the record and suggested some extra tracks, I had no doubt how I wanted to record them.

Since Trad Arr Jones was made, The Minstrel in the Galleries have been made flesh. Performing staples of British Folk Rock extremely loud, wearing magnificent rented costumes and even performing the odd Mummer's Play when given the chance, The Minstrel hearken back to a day when hair was long and codpieces nothing to be ashamed about. The shows are quite something to behold (I've never missed one) and though only The Humpback Whale has featured in their set previous to this recording, The Minstrel picked up the gauntlet thrown down by Appleseed and met at the Fremont Lists to provide you with more progressive folk than anybody but Mediaeval Kenevil himself could handle.

So here are four more of Nic Jones' songs viewed through the Glam Folk filter, MitG-style. These songs are dedicated with love from the Minstrel in the Galleries to Lila Jean Thayer Sangster, born to Master and Mistress Crispin that very day.
With best wishes,
Lord John Wesley Harding