Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Strolling Down The Highway
2. Angie
3. Running From Home
4. Needle Of Death
5. It Don't Bother Me
6. Lucky Thirteen
7. Blackwaterslide
8. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
9. Soho - Bert Jansch, John Renbourn
10. Rabbit Run
11. Woe Is Love My Dear
12. Bells
13. Wishing Well
14. Poison
15. I Am Lonely
16. Train Song
17. Nobody's Bar
18. The January Man
19. Reynardine
20. Rosemary Lane
21. When I Get Home
22. Oh My Father

Disc 2:

1. Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning
2. Lost And Gone
3. The Blacksmith
4. Chambertin
5. You Are My Sunshine
6. Blues Run The Game
7. One To A Hundred
8. Sweet Mother Earth
9. Where Did My Life Go?
10. Blackbird In The Morning
11. Playing The Game
12. Is It Real
13. Ladyfair
14. The Old Routine
15. Three Dreamers
16. The Ornament Tree (Bonny Portmore)
17. Summer Heat
18. Morning Brings Peace Of Mind
19. Carnival
20. Toy Balloon (For Little Anna-Rebecca)
21. Looking For Love
22. October Song

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11388 in Music
• Released on: 2008-02-26
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .26 pounds
• Running time: 154 minutes

From the Label
why we used 2 Loren Auerbach tracks on a Bert Jansch CD...
I compiled this album - the very first Jansch compilation to feature material licensed from more than one label - and I'm delighted r. smyth has enjoyed it. In response to his caveat about two Loren Auerbach tracks being 'a mistake' let me explain: those tracks, both featuring bert as guitarist and one as writer, were released in the mid 80s. During this period bert recorded the solo album Heartbreak (1982) and the reformed Pentangle albums Open The Door (1984) and In The Round (1986). All these albums were 'big production' albums with full band sound. However, for licensing reasons none of these recordings were available to us to use on this occasion and so, to balance this (and to avoid an impression that bert only recorded sparse acoustic music in the 80s and 90s) we used the two 'full band' loren auerbach tracks. In any case, the two Auerbach albums which Bert appeared on (After The Long Night and Playing the Game) have since been reissued on CD credited jointly as 'Loren Auerbach & Bert Jansch'. Hope this explains things!

Customer Reviews

Definitive compilation
You cannot go wrong with this. This a what all compilation albums should aspire to. Well chosen tracks and informative sleevenotes by Colin Harper (who wrote the equally excellent biography of Jansch with the same title). I wasn't sure which Jansch album to plump for so I took the conservative option to try this first. I wasn't disappointed. A great introduction to one of the major figures in British folk.