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BERT JANSCH  'Bert Jansch'

Jimmy Page 'I was absolutely obsessed with Bert Jansch. When I first heard his album I couldn't believe it. He was so far ahead of what everyone else was doing' 

A landmark album from Britains first singer/songwriter, this ain't no skiffle!

Bert Jansch had an astonishingly original sound, blending Bronzy's blues and Mingus's jazz, Scots trad and, a flavour of English guitar exoticist Davy Graham. People saw him as a rival to Bob Dylan and when his first album came out it was a really big day. Not even owning a guitar, Bert recorded the album at Bill Leader's flat on spec using a Revox and borrowed instruments. Davy Graham's Angie, mischievously adopting Cannonball Adderley's Worksong as middle-eight, was the only cover - although Smokey River was essentially Jimmy Giuffre's Train And The River while Casbah had started life as Mingus's Better Get It In Your Soul. Mostly though these were intense, personal songs reflecting the boho lifestyle of its author, from his earliest composition Courting Blues through the swaggering imagery of Strolling Down The Highway - written in 1962 while hitch-hiking through France - to the more poignant reflections of Needle Of Death and Running From Home. Songs from the album were covered by Julie Felix, Marianne Faithfull and Donovan. Like Dylan, folk is too just to narrow a term to capture Bert Jansch

orig UK 1st MONO press Transatlantic TRA 125 A1/B1 1965

orig laminate cover ex, pinched spine too, purple & white label shows no visible signs of spindle wear just one tiny pen mark from library, vinyl looks UNPLAYED!! super nr.MINT copy has like new factory fresh feel FANTASTIC ORIG VINYL (see pics)