BERT JANSCH

Bert Jansch

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3.72 | 24 ratings | 3 reviews | 21% 5 stars

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Studio Album, released in 1965

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Strolling Down the Highway (3:06)
2. Smokey River (2:56)
3. Oh How Your Love Is Strong (3:40)
4. I Have No Time (3:09)
5. Finches (0:51)
6. Rambling's Going to be the Death of Me (3:18)
7. Veronica (1:32)
8. Needle pf Death (3:20)
9. Do You Hear Me Now (2:06)
10. Alice's Wonderland (1:46)
11. Running From Home (2:24)
12. Courting Blues (4:02)
13. Casbah (2:10)
14. Dreams of Love (1:44)
15. Angie (3:15)

Total time: 39:19

Bonus Tracks on Castle Music Remaster (2001):
16. Instrumental Medley (1964) (8:44)
17. Angie (Live, 1964) (2:50)

Line-up / Musicians

- Herbert "Bert" Jansch / Martin acoustic guitar, vocals

With:
- Keith De Groot / percussion (16,17)
- John Challis / piano (16,17)

Releases information

ArtWork: Brian Shuei (design & photo)

LP Transatlantic TRA 125 (1965) UK
LP Transatlantic 2933 124 (1979) France
LP Demon Records TRANDEM 1 (1988) UK
CD Castle Music CMRCD 204 (2001,UK) Remastered with 2 bonus tracks *
CD Transatlantic TRS 117 A (2001) UK
LP Earmark 42008 (2003) Italy
CD WAS-104 (2005) Japan

* This remaster uses alternate masters, retrieved from Vanguard and also used on 'Lucky Thirteen'.

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BERT JANSCH Bert Jansch ratings distribution

3.72
(24 ratings)

Essential: a masterpiece of rock music (21%)
Excellent addition to any rock music collection (50%)
Good, but non-essential (12%)
Collectors/fans only (12%)
Poor. Only for completionists (4%)

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Review by kenethlevine
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Prog-Folk Team

Another month yet another Scottish folkie dating back to the 1960s to pour over, courtesy of my reviewing muse. To overuse a cliche that I am at least aware I am using, this fellow is truly a guitarist's guitarist. Unfortunately, that's also shorthand for "I am not a guitarist", and, while I am not oblivious to technical virtuosity on the acoustic platform, it's just not enough for me, and quite a number of the tracks are instrumental. The best of these by far is DAVEY GRAHAM's classic "Angie", which doesn't say much for JANSCH's own writing at this stage. Luckily quite a few tracks have vocals. Well, actually not that luckily. While his singing is not without its Scottish charm, his voice isn't very expressive, and so twangy that I briefly thought he hailed from Glasgow, Alabama.

In 1965, not many were doing this, so JANSCH's influence cannot be minimized, but it's hard to get excited about it today on listens 1 to 5, just so much water under the bridge since those early days. Again, at the risk of prosaism, I was painfully young in 1965 and I never heard this, and, while certain previously unheard works of that era do well up the nostalgia within me, this just doesn't. Nonetheless, with GORDON LIGHTFOOT singing, "I Have No time", "Needle of Death", "Running from Home", and "Dreams of Love" would all be 5 star glorious, so they are still nasally worthwhile as underperformed by JANSCH.

Only one way to go with this one. 3 tentatively solid stars, and onward.

Latest members reviews

5 stars Beyond the hype, music, sweet music. It's easy to place Bert Jansch's and his Pentangle partner John Renbourn's early solo albums as a type of addendum to their Pentangle canon. A type of unofficial 'immersion' material, if you will, as many of the 'folk baroque' trademarks that the duo pione ... (read more)

Report this review (#1919187) | Posted by SteveG | Wednesday, May 2, 2018 | Review Permanlink

4 stars 4.0. Spoiler alert: no prog here, even if a little presence of Mingusian jazz is felt on 'Alice's Wonderland'. I really like the album. It doesn't feel like a 3.5-star kind of stuff. There are plenty of strong numbers and a couple of truly outstanding tracks. All of the creations here are very ... (read more)

Report this review (#714395) | Posted by Dayvenkirq | Saturday, April 7, 2012 | Review Permanlink

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