Pentangle - The Snows (Soloman’s Seal) | jt1674

feat. Bert Jansch 

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Bert Jansch - Poison

 

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Mo’ PENTANGLE - ‘REFLECTION’ - Live in Belgium 1972

 Opening with Danny Thompson on bass ( the master ) 

With of course Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Jacqui McShee, Terry Cox - five points of light as the are described here and rightly so . . . . . . one of the main reasons I left jazz proper and thought hang on a cotton picking minute! . . . . . 

This Belgian TV special from 1972 captures the band in all its glory as they work their way through six songs from the albums Solomon's Seal, and Reflection.

found here Le Ramasseur De Mégots 

Bert Jansch - Read All About It (One By One) | Le Ramasseur De Mégots

Read All About It (One By One)Bert JanschFrom The Outside

so seems like everyone is on a Jansch jagg! After Alice at O My Soul posted so many multi-sourced tracks t’other day comes this 

Le Ramasseur De Mégots

BERT JANSCH - various tracks selected by O My Soul

So Alice over at O My Soul has gone on a real Bert Jansch jagg this morning and we thoroughly agree, her selection is wonderful here and includes several favourites!

"Well love is like a little boy
Building castles in the sand
And the higher he builds them

The longer they stand”

 guessimdumb

Bert Jansch - Fresh As a Sweet Sunday Morning

Bert Jansch | Reynardine

Oh day and night she followed him
Her eyes so bright, dear child
And he led her over the mountains

Did the sly, bold Reynardine 

TRAVELLING MAN - BERT JANSCH | O My Soul

Bert Jansch - Travelling Man

O My Soul

Note that Alice says : "Best Song Ever <3 for real"

Instrumental of The Day :: BERT JANSCH - ‘Chambertin’ | O MY SOUL

More Bert Jansch from Alice over at O My Soul . . . . . . . . . . . nuff said

O My Soul

Bert Jansch | Chambertin

Brilliant choice and this is a Jansch wonderment  . . . . as ever

Sound of The Day :: O My Soul : ALL THIS REMAINS - Hope Sandoval & Bert Jansch

Wow! O My Soul does it again ! . . . . . I didn’t even know Hope had done a piece of work with Bert Jansch!

Check this out . . . . . .it’s great!

O My Soul

All This Remains – Hope Sandoval & Bert Jansch

Pentangle - Travelling Song French TV 1969 | TWILIGHTZONE

 TWILIGHTZONE posted this yesterday and a fine piece of archive work it is too. Bert Jansch and Jacqui McShee all trying their best to keep straight faces (sic) with the rest of the great sixties folk rock band ‘Pentangle’ featured on French TV

Thanks to TWILIGHTZONE

Bert Jansch :: Bert At The BBC | AQUARIUM DRUNKARD

 and again from the mighty Aquarium Drunkard . . . . . . . . another hero

Bert Jansch :: Bert At The BBC

Posted on November 8, 2022

The highlight of this exhaustively curated set are the performances which allow us to listen in to a full concert or series of tunes. It is here that we experience Bert’s crowning achievement—the temporal transcendence of music consciousness. From one song to the next Jansch could transport his audience to 1930’s Mississippi, the court of King James, or a 1974 folk club in Soho without missing a beat.

full article here . . . .

Pentangle: The Time Has Come 1967 - 1973 (4 CD Box 2008) URBANASPIRINES

 PENTANGLE

Nice 4 disc history of the Folk Rock band par excellence featuring Danny Thompson, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn and the unique voice of Jacqui McShee (maybe not quite up there with Sandy Denny or indeed even Steeleye Span's Maddy Prior - still going incidentally but a unique voice to be sure) from Kostas over at Urbanaspirines

PENTANGLE - The Time Has Come 1967 -1973 - URBANASPIRINES

Song of The Day/Night :: Bert Jansch - The Bright New Year

Night then!

Alternate song of the day 2 :: Bert Jansch - Poison

Sound of The Day - BERT JANSCH - FRESH & SWEET AS A SUNDAY MORNING

 guessimdumb

Bert Jansch - Fresh As a Sweet Sunday Morning

from the brilliant Guess I'm Dumb

PENTANGLE LIVE - OSLO, NORWAY 1968 - Floppy Boot Stomp

 

Pentangle - LIVE in Oslo 1968 - Floppy Boot Stomp

Totally classic British Folk rock band Pentangle at their absolute peak with every member a legend now in their own right. Bert Jansch, Danny Thompson, John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee. I needed to tweak it a bit on playback for when Jacqui sings on her own ( just set to emphasise the vocals on the equaliser is all) but this is prime quality given its age

Pentangle

Croatian Viewing Festival 

The Dolphin Club 

Masonic Building 

Oslo Norway 

1968-05-30

TV Broadcast @ 320

01. Introduction---Tuning

02. The Time Has Come

03. Mirage

04. A Woman Like You

05. Turn Your Money Green

06. Hear My Call

07. Haiaitian Fight Song

08. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme

09. Bells

10. Bruton Town

11. Travelling Song

12. Pentangling

Jacqui McShee - Vocals

Bert Jansch - Guitar

John Renbourn - Guitar

Danny Thompson - Bass

Terry Cox - Drums, Percussion

SONG OF THE DAY - BERT JANSCH- Tell Me What Is True Love' - O MY SOUL

From O My Soul

FLOPPY BOOT STOMP - BERT JANSCH - USA 1996

 BERT JANSCH!

 a fascinating document from 1996 and Bert Jansch's tour of the USA promoting his then latest album ''When The Circus Comes to Town' of 1995 and, as something of a mystery, the untitled and instrumental tracks here are worthy of exploration. The first sounds very much like the album but Google lyric search brings up nothing and there are more which I will try to pin down unless any visitors here know better than I (not difficult!) Still it is very good quality and very much worth a download. 

Bert Jansch LIVE in Davis CA 1996

 Bert Jansch

The Palms 

Davis CA 

1996-04-19

Soundboard @320

01. Intro

02. Open Road

03. Blues Run The Game

04. Untitled

05. Walk Quietly By

06. Come Back Baby

07. Blackwaterside

08. Morning Brings Peace Of Mind

09. Let Me Sing

10. Instrumental

11. Living In The Shadows

12. No One Around

13. My Donald

14. Summer Heat

15. A Woman Like You

16. When The Circus Comes To Town

17. Lily Of The West

18. Instrumental

19. Just A Dream

20. Untitled

21. Running From Home

22. Anji

23. Candyman

24. Back Home

25. As She Moved Through The Fair

26. Let Your Hair Down Woman

27. Key To The Highway

28. Untitled

29. Strolling Down The Highway

30. Stealing The Night Away

Bert Jansch - Guitar, Vocals

BERT JANSCH

The Maestro!

Bert Jansch - Live in Santa Cruz 1978 - Floppy Boot Stomp

Lovely couple of sets (count 'em!) t'other day from Floppy Boot Stomp a double disc massive set of Bert Jansch at Moraga Hall at the University of California Santa Cruz CA from way back 1978. A live soundboard and staggering quality a most welcome addition to the Swappers Vaults!

Floppy Boot's Enoch says:

1st Set

01. Cat & Mouse

02. Song Intro---Tuning

03. Poor Mouth

04. Song Intro---Tuning

05. Daybreak

06. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer

07. Song Intro---Tuning

08. Avocet

09. Song Intro---Tuning

10. Blackwaterside

11. Pretty Saro

12. Song Intro

13. Down River

14. Come Back Baby---Encore Break

15. Tell Me Where'd My Life Go

16. One for Jo

2nd Set

17. Blues Run the Game

18. Lost Love

19. Time and Time Again

20. Candyman

21. Let Me Sing

22. Running from Home

23. Curragh of Kildare

24. Tell Me What Is True Love?

25. Song Intro

26. Ask Your Daddy

27. Anji---Banter

28. I Am Lonely

29. Thanks---Encore Break---Banter

30. In My Mind

Bert Jansch - Guitar & Vocals

BERT JANSCH

Well here's a tasty treat for a Tuesday (you try saying that without your teeth in!) Big O have posted a lovely Bert Jansch set this morning. From The Palms Davis CA in '96 where Bert recalls playing before with Pentangle. This is simply peerless

Jansch meant a great deal to me and I grew up admiring his voice and above all his guitar playing, unique and always impressive. I wanted to play like him and sadly that was not to be and hardly anyone can match his style. Hence why Johnny Marr got to play with him before his untimely passing from lung cancer. Bert's 'Needle of Death' haunted me all my life . . . . his version of Davy Graham's 'Angie' was the first we all tried to emulate and copy but Blackwater Side and many other songs display his influence upon others too (Led Zeppelin) which never ceased to impress me too! I knew I was in good company. Bert's was one of the first albums I ever bought as a precocious teenager spreading his wings from the older Blues masters 

Bert Jansch - The Palms, Davis, CA USA 1996

check this out - it's a rare treat, Big O stays fairly to very good sound board and frankly it's superb! Highly listenable and one of the archive

1965

For those less familiar : here's wiki

Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch was a founding member of the band Pentangle and came to prominence in London in the 1960s, as an acoustic guitarist, as well as a singer-songwriter. He recorded at least 25 albums and toured extensively from the 1960s to the 21st century. Jansch was a leading figure in the 1960s British folk revival, touring folk clubs and recording several solo albums, as well as collaborating with other musicians such as John Renbourn and Anne Briggs. Jansch’s work influenced such artists as Al Stewart, Paul Simon, Johnny Marr, Elton John, Ian Anderson, Bernie Taupin, Bernard Butler, Jimmy Page, Nick Drake, Graham Coxon, Donovan, Neil Young, Fleet Foxes, Devendra Banhart, Neil Halstead, and Roy Harper. Jansch passed away in 2011, aged 67, at a hospice in Hampstead after a long battle with lung cancer. - wikipedia

BERT JANSCH

Avocet

I adored the work of Bert Jansch ever since I bought an early Marble Arch album with 'Needle of Death' on it and other delights (Blackwater Side, Angie,) and had arrived at his songwriting via Donovan who I had followed avidly since the early sixties and his version of 'Do You Hear Me Now' a Jansch song led my directly to Bert . . . . well I am pleased to note from the wondrous Bandcampo that they have rereleased and remastered  a project dear to my heart in my sharing of Bert's passion for our birdlife. Avocet!

He was often quoted as saying “I’m not playing for anyone, just myself” and this feels no more apparent than on 1979’s ‘Avocet’, his beautifully meditative paean to British birds. This isn’t to say that Jansch was throwing commercial success to the wind, or was unaware of his audience, more that this album feels like a uniquely personal reflection of him. (The subject of British birds is one that Jansch held close to his heart. Indeed, just preceding this album was his 1978 split 7” single with Shirley Collins - with proceeds in aid of the RSPB.) For fans of Jansch this is often the album that is singled out as his best work. The freedoms of a post-Pentangle career are much in evidence; folk rock and even trad folk give way to an album that is not only without lyrical accompaniment but really quite orchestral, classical even, in its composition. There are surprises in particular in ‘Lapwing’ (a dirge-like waltz that wouldn’t be out of place on a Nils Frahm album) and ‘Bittern’ (which speaks of Arthur Russell’s more experimental pieces).Bandcamp

Bert Jansch

Avocet at Bandcamp