The Bert Jansch Foundation release ’80 Plays for Bert, Volume 1′, in which his music and legacy are celebrated through a new generation of artists who have taken inspiration from his work. It will resonate with Jansch fans and beyond.
Watch the mighty Pentangle performing ‘Blues In Time’, recorded in January 1971 by the BBC. Jacqui McShee sits out this one, leaving Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox to work their instrumental magic.
The enduring legacy of Bert Jansch is to be celebrated in a special concert featuring Bernard Butler, Jacqui McShee, Robert Plant, Kathryn Williams, Brigid Mae Power & Steve Gunn, Martin Simpson, James Yorkston, Sam Lee and more.
Bert Jansch at the BBC is a truly glorious collection that has been extensively researched and features radio and TV sessions from 1966 to 2009. It’s an outstanding boxset release.
Earth Recordings are to release “Bert Jansch at the BBC”, a limited edition 4LP/8CD set with a 40-page book containing 147 rare & unreleased tracks – live on-air spots, sessions & full concerts originally broadcast from the BBC. Listen to two tracks here.
Taken from his forthcoming covers album ‘A Restless, Hungry Feeling’, listen to Jason McNiff covering Bert Jansch’s ‘Running from Home’. Plus, read how Jason fell under his influence and first came to see Bert perform at a weekly residency in London.
Watch Pentangle in their original lineup performing ‘People on the Highway’ live on Belgian TV from 1972. The track featured on their final release ‘Solomon’s Seal’.
On her new single, Emma Tricca covers Bert Jansch’s ‘It Don’t Bother Me’. From an initial, deliberate simplicity of guitar and voice, the track grows; organ, horns, and the band reveal themselves in a full flowering replete with hues of baroque and psych.
Earth Recordings announce 40th Anniversary Edition of Bert Jansch’s Avocet album on Limited Edition white vinyl with downloadable live bonus tracks, newly expanded audio and new liner notes from Pentangle bandmate and collaborator Danny Thompson.
Here are what, 40 years perhaps, spread out before us. And whilst you can hear changes and movement and development, it never strays – from the core, from the good tune, the excellent finger work.
Just a Simple Soul is the first comprehensive retrospective collection spanning Bert Jansch’s 5-decade-long career, compiled by Bernard Butler and the Bert Jansch Estate. Released 26th October.
