Bert Jansch - "Courting Blues"
Bert Jansch - "Running From Home"
These songs are from Bert Jansch's debut, released in 1965. He was 22 years old.
Almost 50 years later, so much was still the same:
My love for Bert Jansch does not just stem from his guitar-playing, rightly celebrated. It is his singing - dry, level. His heart is hidden away - inside the chest of a man. So many songwriters show too much; for Jansch, the fact of the singing said enough. The words; the fingers on strings, like light on leaves; the melody that moves closer and then far away.
This music is not theatre, a performance for a crowd. You imagine Jansch alone in a room, singing to himself.
Bert Jansch & John Renbourn - "East Wind"
And then he could also do this, making an intricate house and unmaking it, like a wolf, blowing.
RIP.
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Posted by Sean at October 6, 2011 3:50 PM
and it will begin playing. All songs are also available to download: just right-click the link and choose 'Save as...'
