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Bert Jansch

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Herbert Jansch was a Scottish folk singer, songwritter & guitarist widely known as a founding member of the band Pentangle.

This album, one of my favourites, is a folk & blues affair based on acoustic guitar's non-standard tunings, a technique that was the hallmark of his sound. There's also nice yet sparse contributions by the band, here and there. Most prominently, we find here drummer Pick Withers, about entering world fame with Dire Straits by then, who delivers a tasty & tight sense of rythm in mostly mid-tempo incursions. Nice touches of Rhodes electric piano and fiddle, too. Badge of honor to Rod Clements (Lindisfarne) who underpins the whole recording with his precise and pulsating bass lines.

If folk may be seen as progressive, this may be a fine prog album.

Heart of the Matter | 4/5 | 2020-9-26

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