IT DON'T BOTHER ME

Bert Jansch

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3.58 | 8 ratings | 3 reviews | 25% 5 stars

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Studio Album, released in 1965

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Oh My Babe (4:00)
2. Ring-A-Ding Bird (4:42)
3. Tinker's Blues (1:10)
4. Anti Apartheid (4:05)
5. The Wheel (1:50)
6. A Man I'd Rather Be (2:05)
7. My Lover (4:02)
8. It Don't Bother Me (4:28)
9. Harvest Your Thoughts of Love (2:15)
10. Lucky Thirteen (3:32)
11. As the Day Grows Longer Now (3:44)
12. So Long (Been on the Road So Long) (3:14)
13. Want My Daddy Now (1:38)
14. 900 Miles (3:02)

Total time: 43:47

Line-up / Musicians

- Herbert "Bert" Jansch / vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo & arrangements (14)

With:
- John Renbourn / acoustic guitar (7,10)

Releases information

Artwork: Brian Shuel

LP Transatlantic Records ‎- TRA 132 (1965, UK)
LP XTRA 1163 (1976, UK) Retitled "Early Bert, Volume 1"

CD Castle Music ‎- CMRCD205 (2001, UK) Remastered from original tapes
CD Strange Days Records ‎- WAS-1048 (2005, Japan)
CD BMG ‎- TRACD 132 (2015, Europe) Remastered from original tapes

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BERT JANSCH It Don't Bother Me ratings distribution

3.58
(8 ratings)

Essential: a masterpiece of rock music (25%)
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Review by kenethlevine
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Prog-Folk Team

Having subsisted on JOHN MARTYN for a couple of weeks and now shifting over to BERT JANSCH, I know I shouldn't be comparing and contrasting but my first reaction to "It Don't Bother Me" was that it was Jansch's "The Tumbler" (Martyn's sophomore effort), but that is not only cruel but inaccurate. The similarity is only that Jansch now expresses his brogue better without affectation, but otherwise, for a second album in a year span, this is actually in some ways more captivating than the debut, with songs that better reflect or predict the philosophies of the time, and a quality that presages the prog folk era.

Somehow his vocals are better suited to these musings than in the more closed off predecessor. A consummate example is the superb "Apartheid", with the banjo laden closer "900 Miles" nearly as accomplished, reflecting an American influence coursing through the KINGSTON TRIO. I'm also partial to the rambling story style of "My Lover" and the existential patter of the title cut.

If I could only recommend one Jansch production from the first 2, I'd say don't bother yourself with the debut and grab this one instead.

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3 stars If an album could be described as suffering the dreaded 'sophomore blues' its this follow up album to Bert Jansch's legendary debut. Sporting better production values but not better material, It Don't Bother Me seems a rushed affair and probably was at the time it was recorded and released. Afte ... (read more)

Report this review (#1919733) | Posted by SteveG | Saturday, May 5, 2018 | Review Permanlink

5 stars I am not worthy to review such a landmark album but I will try my best. Put simply "It Don't Bother Me" is proto-prog folk. Is it the first of its type? Some would say his first album would come under this category but to me this *is* it. "It Don't Bother Me" is a mixture of traditional folky ... (read more)

Report this review (#764255) | Posted by BarryGlibb | Tuesday, June 5, 2012 | Review Permanlink

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