BERT JANSCH Birthday Blues RARE ORIGINAL 1969 UK LP TRANSATLANTIC
$
26
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
VINYL: EX+/M
COVER: VG+
HAS SLIGHT CREASES AND EDGEWEAR
NO TEARS OR SEAM SPLITS
Here is a beautiful EX+/VG+ (and vinyl closer to Mint !) UK first pressing of Bert Jansch's classic album BIRTHDAY BLUES on Transatlantic. The original purple /white label issue, laminated sleeve, all in super condition. A great great UK folk album.
Herbert "Bert" Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011[1]) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s, as an acoustic guitarist, as well as a singer-songwriter. He recorded at least 25 albums and toured extensively from the 1960s to the 21st century.
Jansch was a leading figure in the British folk music revival of the 1960s, touring folk clubs and recording several solo albums, as well as collaborating with other musicians such asJohn Renbourn and Anne Briggs. In 1968, he joined the band Pentangle, touring and recording with them until their break-up in 1972. He then took a few years' break from music, returning in the late 1970s to work on a series of projects with other musicians. He joined a reformed Pentangle in the early 1980s and remained with them as they evolved through various changes of personnel until 1995. Until his death, Jansch continued to work as a solo artist.
Jansch's work influenced such artists as Al Stewart, Paul Simon, Johnny Marr, Elton John,Bernie Taupin, Bernard Butler, Jimmy Page, Nick Drake, Graham Coxon, Donovan, Neil Young, Fleet Foxes, Devendra Banhart and Neil Halstead.
Jansch received two Lifetime Achievement Awards at the BBC Folk Awards: one, in 2001, for his solo achievements and the other, in 2007, as a member of Pentangle.
Birthday Blues is the sixth album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in 1969.[2]
[edit]Track listing
All songs composed by Bert Jansch except where noted.
- "Come Sing Me a Happy Song to Prove We All Can Get Along the Lumpy, Bumpy, Long and Dusty Road" – 2:05
- "The Bright New Year" – 1:34
- "Tree Song" – 2:37
- "Poison" – 3:16
- "Miss Heather Rosemary Sewell" – 2:10
- "I've Got a Woman" – 5:15
- "A Woman Like You" – 4:27
- "I Am Lonely" – 2:31
- "Promised Land" – 2:51
- "Birthday Blues" – 1:14
- "Wishing Well" (Jansch, Anne Briggs) – 2:17
- "Blues" – 2:40
[edit]Credits
- Bert Jansch - vocals, guitars
- Danny Thompson - bass
- Terry Cox - drums
- Ray Warleigh - alto sax, flute
- Duffy Power - harmonica
price rating