Toy Balloon (album)

Toy Balloon is the 20th album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch released in 1998.

Toy Balloon
Studio album by Bert Jansch
Released	30 March 1998
Recorded	Castlekirk, Lochranza and Boundary Row Studios, London
Genre	Folk
Label	Cooking Vinyl
Producer	Jay Burnett & Laura B
Bert Jansch chronology
Live at the 12 Bar: An Authorised Bootleg (1996) Toy Balloon (1998) Crimson Moon (2000)

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Track listing

All tracks composed by Bert Jansch; except where indicated

1. "Carnival" (Jackson C. Frank, Jansch) - 4:25
2. "She Moved Through the Fair" (Traditional) - 4:55
3. "All I Got" - 3:16
4. "Bett's Dance" - 2:46
5. "Toy Balloon (for Little Anna-Rebecca)" - 3:32
6. "Waitin' & Wonderin'" - 4:14
7. "Hey Doc" - 2:45
8. "Sweet Talking Lady" - 3:58
9. "Paper Houses" - 3:01
10. "Born and Bred in Old Ireland" - 3:10
11. "How It All Came Down" - 4:40
12. "Just a Simple Soul" - 3:54

Personnel

• Bert Jansch - guitar, vocals
• Marcus Cliffe - bass
• Pick Withers - drums
• Johnny Hodge - slide guitar, harmonica
• Jay Burnett - keyboards
• Pee Wee Ellis - saxophone
• B. J. Cole - pedal steel
• Janie Romer - backing vocal
• Laura B - effects