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Bert Jansch (50th Anniversay Edition)

Bert Jansch

SKU: 5414939917424

Barcode: 5414939917424

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  • Genre: Folk
  • Label: Sanctuary
  • Released Date: 19th November 2015
  • Buying Format:
    180g 1LP

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Bert Jansch’s debut not only inspired an entire generation to pick up the guitar, it also captured this taciturn Scot’s character perfectly.

The self-titled album was released in 1965 and has been a cornerstone of British music ever since. It melds the styles of blues pioneer Elizabeth Cotten and the Charles Mingus-influenced jazz inflections of the British acoustic master Davy Graham, adds all kinds of baroque complexities and hides everything under melodic sophistication.

Jansch’s lyrics are alternately romantic and observant but they’re never sentimental – more than anything, ‘Bert Jansch’ is a timeless album. Bert wasn’t setting out to prove too much. He simply did something fantastic. Then he let people discover it in their own time.

The album was an extension of Bert’s life in the mid 1960s, which was chaotic but through dedication and innate sympathy for the instrument he got very good, very quickly. The next step was to migrate to London. That’s where, in the atmosphere of austerity and excitement characterising bohemian life in the capital in the early 1960s, the adventure began.

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Track Listings

Strolling Down the Highway
Smokey River
Oh How Your Love Is Strong
I Have No Time
Finches
Rambling's Gonna Be the Death of Me
Veronica
Needle of Death
Do You Hear Me Now
Alice's Wonderland
Running, Running from Home
Courting Blues
Casbah
Dreams of Love
Angi

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