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Bert Jansch - Blackwater Side Audio CD

A fair review of the Bert Jansch "Blackwater Side" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Bert Jansch reviews here, or go back to the Bert Jansch tabs.

Bert Jansch Band: Bert Jansch
Title: Blackwater Side
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Release Date: 1998-06-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Rosemary Lane 2: When I Get Home 3: First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 4: Woe Is Love My Dear 5: Blackwater Side 6: I Saw an Angel 7: Little Sweet Sunshine 8: Life Depends on Love 9: Running from Home 10: Market Song [Live] 11: Wishing Well 12: Tell Me What Is True Love? 13: I Loved a Lass 14: It Don't Bother Me 15: No Exit 16: Bruton Town 17: Gasbah 18: (Been on the Road) So Long 19: Tinker's Blues 20: Courting Blues 21: Needle of Death 22: Oh How Your Love Is Strong 23: Angie 24: Poison 25: Lucky 13 26: Peregrinations 27: Soho 28: Woman Like You [Live] 29: Rambling's Going to Be the Death of Me 30: Gardener 31: Tic-Tocative 32: Nobody's Bar 33: Train Song 34: Reynardine 35: Sweet Child 36: Come Back Baby 37: Rabbit Run 38: Strolling Down the Highway 39: Go Your Way My Love

Bert at his BEST!
He influenced many a player in his time; most notably Jimmy Page of Led Zepplin fame. If you are not familiar with Bert's great acoustic guitar music, this collection is a wonderful place to start! This has several hard to find songs, demos, live performances and the like showcasing Bert in his prime.

The thing with Bert is you kind of have to get past his singing as it is pretty bad. . . It always has been bad but this collection seems to cover much of Bert's magic in playing and stays away from his lead vocals material. I won't kid you. Many a song features Bert's singing. You just have to get past it to really HEAR Bert's magic! Once you listen to his masterful acoustic guitar work, you begin to understand how a generation of Folk players were inspired by him. This collection is hard to find and may be limited if not OOP. Some of his best material is on this 2CD collection. Great spin!.


excellent two-disc review
The choice of material is excellent, though missing are a few of his best known pieces such as "I am Lonely" and "Jack Orion"; perhaps these were deliberately left out to make way for some infrequently heard B-sides of singles ("I Saw an Angel," "A Little Sweet Sunshine"). This two-CD collection concentrates on Bert's early period--that is, the music he recorded between 1965 and 1971 as a solo act, with John Renbourn, and as part of Pentangle. The balance of the material selected is good as well, with six or seven Pentangle works present, a couple of duets with John Renbourn, and the remaining thirty or so works a good sample of his best solo album work. At this price, moreover, the whole package is quite a bargain. This set represents good competition for the 1980 "Best of Bert Jansch" set (which covers the same period, but includes only material from his solo titles) and the recent 2-CD "Dazzling Stranger" collection, which attempts to survey his entire career (not entirely to its advantage, in my opinion).


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