Jack Orion

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{{Infobox album

| name = Jack Orion

| type = studio

| artist = Bert Jansch

| cover = Jack Orion 2.jpg

| alt =

| released = September 1966 (UK)

| recorded = c. early summer 1966

| venue =

| studio = 5 North Villas, Camden, London

| genre = Folk

| length = 44:30

| label = Transatlantic

| producer = Bill Leader

| prev_title = Lucky Thirteen

| prev_year = 1965

| next_title = Bert and John

| next_year = 1966

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r96441|pure_url=yes}} link]

| noprose = yes

| rev2 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}

| rev3 = Uncut

| rev3Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{Cite magazine |last=MacDonald |first=Ian |author-link=Ian MacDonald |date=October 1997 |title=Bert Jansch: Blackwater Side / Birthday Blues/Rosemary Lane |magazine=Uncut |page=91 |issue=5}}

}}

Jack Orion is the third album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in 1966. It contains a number of traditional songs, including the epic "Jack Orion": a ten-minute adaptation of the Child ballad "Glasgerion" which tells of a court fiddler’s attempt to seduce a countess and his servant's treachery in successfully impersonating him. A number of songs are performed with friend and fellow guitarist John Renbourn, who would later join him in the group Pentangle. "The Waggoner’s Lad" has Jansch unusually playing the banjo with Renbourn supplying the guitar part.