Bert Jansch - Live In Italy '2020

Tracks list

It is the height of punk in the UK; things will change; heroes are zeroes and
veterans are vanquished… the muse wears a leather jacket and worships a
safety pin. History is re-written from ground zero. It happens overnight.

Meanwhile, guitar stylist, troubadour and former Pentangle Bert Jansch is in
Italy for a show at Mestre at the Teatro Corso in Venice, accompanied by Martin
Jenkins, Sam Mitchell and Leo Wijnkamp, Jr. It’s recorded but, post
Pistols it gathers dust in a box, in an attic, somewhere. Lost.

Some 43 years later, senses have been regained; perspective restored,
reputations re-valued, the world respects musicians from Son House to Shirley
Collins, Jimmy Page to The Black Keys (some punks included). And archivists are
in the attic. In the box. The tape is dusted off; one hour and eleven minutes of
gorgeous folk music; it’s a group setting, playing the
“hits”, the standards, jamming, improvising, feeding off each other,
punctuated by Jansch’s Scottish lilt. They break into a jig, leave space
for Bert’s guitar to hum and vibrate, to roll and tumble, to tingle the
spine. It’s been a long, strange trip.

Throughout, Jansch and his ensemble weave everything into a masterful flow;
there’s ‘Blues Run The Game’, a couple of songs from the
gorgeous ‘Avocet’ album he would go on to record with Danny
Thompson, ‘Pretty Saro’, ‘Angie’ and there’s
still room for them to make it up as they go along. That’s what they did.

‘Live In Italy’ is a joyous experience, “a great night
out”, a show for just under one thousand people, a moment in time when
four performers spar and sway, swagger and soar; folk music as it should be
heard from an era that nearly ended it all. What were we thinking? 

Tracklist:
01. Bert Jansch - Cat And Mouse (Live) (2:30)
02. Bert Jansch - Daybreak (Live) (2:48)
03. Bert Jansch - Blues Run The Game (Live) (3:12)
04. Bert Jansch - Bittern (Live) (7:15)
05. Bert Jansch - Kingfisher (Live) (3:39)
06. Bert Jansch - Come Back Baby (Live) (3:50)
07. Bert Jansch - Running From Home (Live) (4:23)
08. Bert Jansch - Pretty Saro (Live) (3:50)
09. Bert Jansch - Alimony (Live) (4:48)
10. Bert Jansch - Avocet (Live) (9:59)
11. Bert Jansch - Una Linea Di Dolcezza (Live) (3:23)
12. Bert Jansch - Sweet Mother Earth (Live) (2:59)
13. Bert Jansch - Angie (Live) (2:27)
14. Bert Jansch - Cluck Old Hen (Live) (6:20)
15. Bert Jansch - Encore No. 1 (Live) (6:58)
16. Bert Jansch - Encore No.2 Jigs (Live) (1:56)

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