Bert Jansch (album)

Bert Jansch
Studio album by Bert Jansch
Released April 16, 1965
Recorded c. September 1964-January 1965 at 5 North Villas, Camden, London
Genre Folk
Label Transatlantic
Producer Bill Leader
Bert Jansch chronology
Bert Jansch
(1965)		 It Don't Bother Me
(1965)
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Bert Jansch is the debut album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch. The album was recorded on a reel-to-reel tape recorder at engineer Bill Leader's house and sold to Transatlantic Records for £100. Transatlantic released the album, which went on to sell 150,000 copies. It is also mentioned in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. The record includes Jansch's best known tune "Needle of Death," which was inspired by the death of a folk singer friend of his, Buck Polly. [2]

Track listing

  1. "Strolling Down the Highway" – 3:06
  2. "Smokey River" – 2:56 (composed by Jimmy Giuffre)
  3. "Oh How Your Love Is Strong" – 3:40
  4. "I Have No Time" – 3:09
  5. "Finches" – :51
  6. "Rambling's Gonna Be the Death of Me" – 3:18
  7. "Veronica" – 1:32
  8. "Needle of Death" – 3:20
  9. "Do You Hear Me Now?" – 2:06
  10. "Alice's Wonderland" – 1:46 (inspired by Charles Mingus)
  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 (composed by Davey Graham)

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Needle of Death Songfacts
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)