bert jansch fan

He/him / queer / adult I like Bert Jansch a normal amount

[twinkgirlshend]

why are you touching your bandmate like that

[hungwy]

no sorry i dontreally consume any media outside of letting this purple fungus grow in my lunggs

[bert-and-john]

Jackson C Frank's most famous song, "Blues Run The Game" was evidently a favourite of Bert Jansch's, as he covered it many times over the years. He often performed it live on many occasions, and even included it on his 1993 album "Three Chord Trick".

On the Dusty Wright show in 2011, this may have been one of his last recordings of the song, as he passed away a few months after this video.

[bert-and-john]

Dando Shaft is one of those bands where many of their songs sound the same, but fortunately, all of them still FUCK immensely

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Bert Jansch - The Tin Angel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 11, 1997

Since we're Pentangling this week — here's a great tape of a Bert Jansch solo set from back in the 1990s in Philadelphia. I'm guessing there were a lot of soon-to-be Philly freak-folkers in the crowd, frantically taking notes. Thanks to Jordan for passing it along!

This is an intimate show in front of what sounds like a small audience, and Bert is casual-but-dazzling throughout, dipping into the old days with warhorses like "Blues Run The Game" and "Anji" or playing newer material, including a dreamy "Summer Heat" from his underrated mid-1990s LP When The Circus Comes To Town.

Alongside his always excellent guitar work, Jansch's between-song banter is laid-back but on-point, whether he's reminiscing about Jackson C. Frank and Anne Briggs or painting an evocative portrait of his younger self, hitchhiking in France, strolling down the highway.

Johnny Marr: Bert was very alluring. He was mysterious, and came off as quite heavy, and reclusive. He was uncompromising, and that was particularly appealing. You knew it wasn’t a pose. He wasn’t trying to be liked, he was very cool, and his playing backed it up.

[xmindscorcherx]

[mrjuneberry]

It hurts so bad liking some older musicians because what do you mean he wrote so many good songs but so few at the same time? What do you mean he’ll never make music again? What do you mean he died, bring him back. I need him, I need more

[dognez]

★ Michael Nesmith & Red Rhodes — Pictured on the back of L.A. Turnaround by Bert Jansch, 1974

[memorysong]

[vittrafolk]

[the-tenth-arcanum]

ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to be into shit no one cares about

[gghero]

popular ship will kill the patient. they need fanart of that one character no one likes or cares about to live

[i-do-it-for-your-love]

[oldwinenewbottles]

A song cannot survive if it is not being played

[swallow-wind]

oldwinenewbottles:

“The mention of that song raises a question: who wrote that giddy tune to “Famous Flower of Serving Men” which also drives the far more famous instrumental at the end of Fairport Convention’s “Matty Groves”? One does not need to know the song to savour the story:

[Carthy] “Well, it was 1966, Swarb [Dave Swarbrick] and I were in Skopje, doing a festival to say thank you to countries which had supported Yugoslavia. And Hedy West, whom Bob Dylan cites among his influences, was there, messing around with the tune of a song called ‘Kate and the Cowhide’ from Utah, written in ¾ time. She sang a version in 9/8, and Swarb and I were flabbergasted. Well, I went on to use it in an arrangement of ‘Famous Flowers’ and Swarb joined Fairport and added it to ‘Matty Groves’. That’s what folk music is: the intuitive nature of the whole thing among people who love messing about with stuff and coming up with something else to keep the continuity going; people who aren’t intimidated by how venerable it is. A song cannot survive if it is not being played – it is either played or it perishes.”

from Ed Vulliamy’s interview with Martin Carthy (“I’m not interested in heritage: this stuff is alive”, The Guardian, 17 April 2011)

Martin Carthy, Shearwater

Fairport Convention, Liege & Lief

Roud 199, Child 106 (Famous Flower of Serving Men)

Roud 52, Child 81 (Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard/Matty Groves)

[sifunkel]

When ur ex shows up at the function😭

[latefrthesky]

in the 60s and 70s if men felt too embarrassed or repressed to have sex with each other they'd form a soft/folk rock band and sing beautiful harmonies

[gregorygalloway]

Bert Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011)