When The Circus Comes To Town is the nineteenth album by Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 folk musician Bert Jansch

Bert Jansch

Herbert "Bert" Jansch was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s, as an acoustic guitarist, as well as a singer-songwriter...

 released in 1995. The song "Born and Bred in Old Ireland" was also recorded during these sessions but omitted from the UK album. Bert's manager intended to add it to a projected Japanese version of the album, which may or may not have happened. The track was re-recorded for Jansch's 1998 studio album, Toy Balloon

Toy Balloon (album)

Toy Balloon is the twentieth album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch released in 1998.-Track listing:All tracks composed by Bert Jansch; except where indicated#"Carnival" - 4:25#"She Moved Through the Fair" - 4:55...

Track listing

All tracks composed by Bert Jansch; except where indicated

1. "Walk Quietly By"
2. "Open Road"
3. "Back Home"
4. "No-One Around" (Janie Romer)
5. "Step Back"
6. "When The Circus Comes To Town"
7. "Summer Heat"
8. "Just a Dream"
9. "The Lady Doctor from Ashington"
10. "Stealing the Night Away"
11. "Honey Don't You Understand"
12. "Born with the Blues"
13. "Morning Brings Peace Of Mind"
14. "Living in the Shadows"

Personnel

• Bert Jansch - guitar, vocals
• Colin Gibson
  Colin Gibson (musician)
  Colin Gibson is a bass player and composer.-Biography:Gibson and guitarist John Turnbull were childhood friends and played together in a band called The Primitive Sect, wth Bob Sergeant on organ. In summer 1966, Gibson and Turnbull joined unsigned, Newcastle band The Chosen Few...
  
   - bass
• Liam Genockey
  Liam Genockey
  Liam Genockey is an Irish drummer.Liam Genockey was born in Dublin, Ireland. During the 1960s he lived in Plymouth, Devon, U.K, playing in local semi-pro groups, then in the early 70's playing with Torbay based rock band Adolphus Rebirth...
  
   - drums
• Mike Piggott - violin
• Mark Ramsden
  Mark Ramsden
  Mark Ramsden is a British writer, composer, producer and musician. He studied at Leeds Music College becoming a virtuoso saxophonist and flautist...
  
   - soprano saxophone
• Bobby Barton - slide guitar
• Tony Hinnigan
  Tony Hinnigan
  Anthony "Tony" Hinnigan is a musician from Glasgow. He is best known for his work with Michael Nyman , Ennio Morricone, and James Horner. He plays cello as well as Irish whistle and various Andean woodwind instruments...
  
   - strings
• Maggie Boyle
  Maggie Boyle
  Maggie Boyle is a London-born Irish singer-songwriter.As a youngster she joined the Fulham branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. Later she became an events organiser...
  
  , Janie Romer and Christine Collister
  Christine Collister
  Christine Collister is a Manx folk, blues and jazz singer-songwriter. She was born and grew up on the Isle of Man and first came to public attention in 1986 as the singer of the theme song for the BBC's television adaptation of Fay Weldon's book The Life and Loves of a She-Devil.Prior to this, in...
  
  - backing vocals