BERT JANSCH & JOHN RENBOURN: BERT AND JOHN [AKA: STEPPING STONES]

These two expressive guitarists were roommates during their very early careers and, shortly before they co-founded PENTANGLE, offered up this intriguing collaborative effort. While several aspects work in its favor, all of which can be summed up as less JANSCH more RENBOURN, or perhaps, more kindly, improved synergy resulting from 2 compatible players. The twin attack works better on instrumentals like "East Wind", which could almost be called "Andalusian wind" as well, the light jazz of "Red's Favourite", and the wistful folk of "Stepping Stones". Only two vocal tracks dot the opus, the masterful time capsule of "Soho" and the far less inspired and frankly monotonous "The Time Has Come". This is verifiably a keystone in several careers and inspirational in many others for its breadth of styles and playing, but at only 28 minutes, and with some of that attenuated, it falls a tad short of 3.5 stars.

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