Lazy Farmer

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title: "Lazy Farmer" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["wizz-jones-albums", "1975-debut-albums"] topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_Farmer" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Lazy Farmer
type	studio
artist	Lazy Farmer/Wizz Jones
cover	Lazy_Farmer_75.jpg
released	May 1975
recorded	January 1975
genre	Folk, folk rock
label	Songbird
producer	Carsten Linde, Wizz Jones
misc	{{Extra chronology
artist	Wizz Jones
type	studio
prev_title	Soloflight
prev_year	1974
title	Lazy Farmer
year	1975
next_title	Happiness Was Free
next_year	1976
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| name = Lazy Farmer | type = studio | artist = Lazy Farmer/Wizz Jones | cover = Lazy_Farmer_75.jpg | alt = | released = May 1975 | recorded = January 1975 | venue = | studio = | genre = Folk, folk rock | length = | label = Songbird | producer = Carsten Linde, Wizz Jones | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Wizz Jones | type = studio | prev_title = Soloflight | prev_year = 1974 | title = Lazy Farmer | year = 1975 | next_title = Happiness Was Free | next_year = 1976 | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = | noprose=yes |}} Lazy Farmer is the 1975 album by British folk rock group Lazy Farmer. This short-lived group consisted of pioneer British folk musician Wizz Jones, his wife Sandy Jones, John Bidwell and Jake Walton. The album was dedicated to American banjo player John Burke, whose book "Fiddle Tunes for the Banjo" inspired the formation of Lazy Farmer. The album was recorded at Conny Plank's countryside studio in Cologne, Germany.

Track listing

1. "Lazy Farmer" (Traditional)
2. "Standing Down in New York Town" (Ralph McTell)
3. "Railroad Boy" (Traditional)
4. "Soldier's Joy/Arkansas Traveller" (Traditional/Sandford C. Faulkner)
5. "Turtle Dove" (Traditional)
6. "John Lover's Gone" (Traditional)
7. "Johnson Boys" (Traditional)
8. "Love Song" (Derroll Adams)
9. "The Cuckoo" (Clarence Ashley/Hobart Smith)
10. "Sally in the Garden/Liberty" (Traditional)
11. "Gypsy Davey" (Traditional/Woody Guthrie)
12. "When I Leave Berlin" (Wizz Jones)

Personnel

• Wizz Jones - acoustic guitar, vocals
• Sandy Jones - banjo, vocals
• John Bidwell - guitar, flue, flageolet, vocals
• Jake Walton - guitar, dulcimer, hurdy-gurdy, vocals
• Don Coging - banjo

Production

• Producer: Carsten Linde/Wizz Jones
• Recording Engineer: Conny Plank
• Cover Design: Jerken Diederich/Annette Welke
• Photography: Fern Mehring

References

References

1. [{{AllMusic

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