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Track Listings
1 | Black Water Side |
2 | M'lady Nancy |
3 | A Woman Like You |
4 | Strolling Down the Highway |
5 | Casbah |
6 | Reynardine |
7 | Miss Heather Rosemary Sewell |
8 | Come Back Baby |
9 | The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face |
10 | Poison |
11 | Angie |
12 | Promised Land |
13 | Blues |
14 | Running, Running from Home |
15 | Alice's Wonderland |
16 | Nicola |
17 | Alman |
18 | It Don't Bother Me |
19 | Peregrinations |
20 | The Gardener |
21 | Sarabanda |
22 | Veronica |
23 | Needle of Death |
24 | Birthday Blues |
25 | Tell Me What Is True Love |
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Well-known and emulated by acoustic guitar devotees, Bert Jansch has never had the notoriety that British folk rocker Richard Thompson gained, though he's every bit as dynamic a guitarist, and has absorbed and transformed even more influences--notably the Delta blues. There's a geometric precision behind this Scot's fleet, rhythmic fingerstyle work, which never sounds quite like any guitarist you can name. He's also an underrated composer, as the opening track alone should tell anyone, especially Led Zeppelin fans: Jimmy Page and band recorded it, renamed as "Black Mountain Side." This single-disc collection overflows with Jansch's formidable, hypnotic talent. --Roy Francis Kasten
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.59 x 4.96 x 0.43 inches; 3.17 Ounces
- Manufacturer : SHANACHIE
- Original Release Date : 1992
- Date First Available : December 8, 2006
- Label : SHANACHIE
- ASIN : B000000E9S
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #93,651 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #127 in British Folk
- #326 in Traditional Blues (CDs & Vinyl)
- #1,127 in Traditional Folk (CDs & Vinyl)
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It will not take you long to become convinced that Jansch's stark fingerpicking is first class. What will take longer is realizing that he is a decent songwriter as well. There are a few traditional pieces here, starting with "Black Water Side" and continuing with "Reynardine" and "The Gardner." But of the twenty-five tracks collected here on this 1990 release from Shanachie, sixteen are written by Jansch. The best known is "Needle of Death," inspired by the death of a friend on heroin, which is ironic given that it is an atypical Jansch song, where the singing and the lyrics overshadow the guitar playing. But when Jansch included lyrics with his songs they did tend to be rather dark in nature. Most of these songs are short, two to three minutes, in length, which explains why you end up with only 66 minutes of music with twenty-five tracks. But that is still over an hour's worth of music that establishes Jansch as an important figure in the British folk movement.
Jansch's singing seems indifferent at times, but there are a few moments where he is committed to his voice being the primary instrument, such as on "Needle of Death" and his cover of Ewan MacColl's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." Still, it is the guitar playing, which sounds like it comes from the Renaissance one moment, as with "Nicola" and "Sarabanda," and another you find him playing blues guitars on tracks like "Strolling, Strolling Down the Highway" and "Come Back Baby." If you want you can just program this CD to do nothing but the instrumental tracks: 2, 7, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22 and 24, and have a really fine album right there. In fact, when you get to songs like "Poisoned" and "Promised Land" where there are suddenly drums and other instruments you are rather surprised and just want to get back to Jansch playing his guitar, whether he bothers to sing or not.
The songs are not arranged chronologically, so you are going to have tracks from his first album, recorded on a portable tape player in the kitchen of his London flat with Jansch playing a borrowed guitar, alternating with those from the end of the 1960s when he was going for a more commercial sound using studio musicians before he returned to a sound more in lines with his earlier folk recordings. But "The Best of Bert Jansch" is obligated to cover the entire spectrum of the height of his musical career. Most of his original albums are out on CDs, sometimes in combinations (e.g., his first and third albums, "Bert Jansch" and "Jack Onion"), all of which will persuade you to remember Jansch when you start ticking off the names of the greatest guitar players of your lifetime.
Along with John Fahey, Doc Watson and Sandy Bull, one of the first generation of acoustic guitar-gods. I read recently on the net that he recently received an award from the Brits "for lifetime achievement," and I can imagine his response. "High bloody time."
The Best of Bert Jansch includes instrumentals like "Perigrinations," "Alman" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"--all clocking in at under two minutes each. Then there's the bluesy interpretaion of Davey Graham's instrumental "Angie." In addition to being a gifted guitar player, his songwriting and expressive vocals on songs like "It Don't Bother Me" and "Needle of Death" make Jansch one of the most important folk artists of the 20th Century.
While Jansch's albums from the past two decades have been few and often go out of print (I would recommend 1981's Heartbreak and 1990's Ornament Tree), his early Transatlantic recordings are still readily available (many of them as two-fers). So if this album leaves you wanting more (and it should), I would suggest Rosemary Lane, Birthday Blues and his self-titled debut. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED