Avocet (album)

Avocet
Studio album by Bert Jansch
Released February 1979 in UK; 1978 in Denmark
Recorded February 1978 at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen
Genre Folk
Length 37:06
Label Charisma
Producer Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch chronology
A Rare Conundrum
(1977)		 Avocet
(1979)		 Thirteen Down
(1980)
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Allmusic [1]

Avocet is the twelfth album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in 1979 in UK. The album was first released by Ex Libris in Denmark in late 1978 with alternate album cover and one alternate track title, although no difference in recorded content. The title song "Avocet" was inspired by the traditional song "The Cuckoo". All songs on the album are named after a sea bird or wading bird.[2]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Bert Jansch

  1. "Avocet" - 17:59
  2. "Lapwing" - 1:33
  3. "Bittern" - 7:49
  4. "Kingfisher" - 3:44
  5. "Osprey" - 3:14
  6. "Kittiwake" - 2:47

Credits

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ "Bert Jansch website". http://www.bertjansch.com/disco.html. Retrieved 2008-11-25. 
Bert Jansch
Studio albums
Bert Jansch (1965) • It Don't Bother Me (1965) • Jack Orion (1966) • Bert And John (1966) • Nicola (1967) • Birthday Blues (1969) • Rosemary Lane (1971) • Moonshine (1973) • L.A. Turnaround (1974) • Santa Barbara Honeymoon (1975) • A Rare Conundrum (1977) • Avocet (1979) • Thirteen Down (1980) • Heartbreak (1982) • From The Outside (1985) • Leather Launderette (1989) • Sketches (1990) • The Ornament Tree (1990) • When The Circus Comes To Town (1995) • Toy Balloon (1998) • Crimson Moon (2000) • Edge of a Dream (2002) • The Black Swan (2006)
Live albums
Bert Jansch Live at La Foret (1980) • BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (1993) • Live At The 12 Bar: An Authorised Bootleg (1996) • Young Man Blues (1998) • Downunder: Live In Australia (2001) • The River Ressions (2004) • Fresh As a Sweet Sunday Morning (2007)
Compilation albums
Lucky Thirteen (1966) • Bert Jansch: The Bert Jansch Sampler (1969) • Box Of Love: The Bert Jansch Sampler Volume 2 (1972) • Strolling Down The Highway (1986) • The Gardener: Essential Bert Jansch (1992) • Three Chord Trick (1993) • Blackwater Side (1997) • Dazzling Stranger: The Bert Jansch Anthology (2000)