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Bert Jansch - A Rare Conundrum Audio CD

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Bert Jansch Band: Bert Jansch
Title: A Rare Conundrum
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Release Date: 2009-06-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Daybreak 2: One to a Hundred 3: Pretty Saro 4: Doctor, Doctor 5: 3 A.M. 6: Curragh of Kildare 7: Instrumentally Irish 8: St. Fiacre 9: If You See My Love 10: Looking for a Home 11: Poor Mouth 12: Cat and Mouse 13: Three Chord Trick 14: Lost Love 15: Three Dreamers [*] 16: Dragonfly [*] 17: Candyman [*]

Worth the Wait!
A friend let me borrow her LP years ago, and I made a cassette tape of it and wore it out. I'm almost embarrassed to say how long I've been searching for this album on CD. I'd almost lost hope that I'd ever get to hear this again. What a gem this is! The melodies are accessible, Bert's guitar playing is, as usual, outstanding, and the variety of styles is wonderfully refreshing. One of the 10 best albums I've had the pleasure of listening to.


Finally . . . and still A Rare Conundrum!
Thanks to an older brother, I had the good fortune of appreciating this release when it was first issued during the halcyon punk and new wave days of 1977. Even though this album consists of highs and averages, it's still a solid album. Although the liner notes are generally correct in stating this kind of finely wrought folk didn't make much of an impression during those brashly creative days, it certainly seemed like a sylvan glade amongst an urban riot at the time and had a way of freshening up your ears for dealing with the more abrasive material of the new wave. In many ways, it was very much part of those pluralistic times, compared to today's monotonous, unimaginative offerings.

The remastering is superb making an album that already sparkled positively glisten: Daybreak, One to a Hundred, Pretty Saro, Doctor, Doctor; 3 AM, The Curragh and Lost Love are all sterling performances. On Doctor, Doctor, we're treated to an unaccompanied banjo groove by Bert, doing what he does best.

The band is just great with violin, drums, bass and acoustic guitar all on the same musical frequency and as with all of Bert's music, there's always space for a raunchy drumming groove to beef things up, as on Lost Love.

So good to have this recording back in the collection and perhaps more than ever it really is A Rare Conundrum.


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Super CD by Bert
Great stuff. This is one of my favorite Bert albums, unavailable on CD until now. .


not bad not his best
However ther L,A turnaround reissue was great. not bad, a bit more "ralph Mctell" cheese than dylan folk. Be warned the Santa Barbara honeymoon reissue is absolute s@#@#**T! stay away. And buy the live river sessions for sure.


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