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SELECT DISCOGRAPHY | Compiled by Colin Harper

1960s	1970s	1980s	1990s
Bert Jansch 1965 It Don't Bother Me 1965 Jack Orion 1966 Bert And John 1966 Nicola 1967 Birthday Blues 1969	Rosemary Lane 1971 Moonshine 1973 LA Turnaround 1974 Santa Barbara Honeymoon 1975 A Rare Conundrum 1977 Avocet 1979	Thirteen Down 1980 Heartbreak 1982 From The Outside 1985 Leather Launderette 1989	Sketches 1990 The Ornament Tree 1990 When The Circus Comes To Town 1995 Live At The 12 Bar 1996 Toy Balloon 1998
2000s
Crimson Moon 2000 Downunder: Live In Australia 2001 Dazzling Stranger: The Bert Jansch Anthology 2000 Edge Of A Dream 2002			Other Compilation Albums Important Foreign & Archive Releases U.K.Singles

	Bert Jansch (Transatlantic TRA 125) Released: April 16 1965 Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal) Produced: Bill Leader Recorded: c. September 1964-January 1965 at 5 North Villas, Camden, London Strolling Down the Highway / Smokey River / Oh How Your Love is Strong / I Have No Time / Finches / Veronica / Needle of Death / Do You Hear Me Now? / Rambling’s Gonna be the Death of Me / Alice’s Wonderland / Running From Home / Courting Blues / Casbah / Dreams of Love / Angie Current CD availability: Bert Jansch Castle Music CMRCD204 released 18 June 2001. Digitally remastered and gorgeously repackaged with classy slip-case featuring facsimiles of the original packaging plus 12 page glossy booklet with photos and brand new extensive sleevenotes. Also includes two previously unreleased bonus tracks: ‘Instrumental Medley 1964’ and ‘Angie (Live) 1964’. BUY Previous CD versions: Bert Jansch/Jack Orion (Demon 1993) and Bert Jansch/It Don’t Bother Me (Castle 1996). (top)
	It Don’t Bother Me (Transatlantic TRA 132) Released: December 1965 Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/banjo/vocal), John Renbourn (second guitar on ) Produced: Nathan Joseph (& Bill Leader, uncredited) Recorded: c. April 1965 at Pye Studios, Denmark Street, London Oh My Babe / Ring-A-Ding Bird / Tinker’s Blues / Anti Apartheid / The Wheel / A Man I’d Rather Be / My Lover / It Don’t Bother Me / Harvest Your Thoughts of Love / Lucky Thirteen */ As The Day Grows Longer Now / So Long (Been On The Road So Long) / Want My Daddy Now / 900 Miles Current CD availability: It Don’t Bother Me Castle Music CMRCD205 released 18 June 2001. Digitally remastered and gorgeously repackaged with classy slip-case featuring facsimiles of the original packaging plus 12 page glossy booklet with photos and brand new extensive sleevenotes. BUY Previous CD versions: It Don’t Bother Me...Plus (Demon 1993) adds four tracks: the two vocal tracks from Bert & John and the two Nicola outtakes (wrongly assumed here to be It Don’t Bother Me outtakes) first released on the Transatlantic vinyl compilation Box Of Love (1972). Bert Jansch/It Don’t Bother Me (Castle 1996) omits two tracks from It Don’t Bother Me: ‘Want My Daddy Now’ and ‘900 miles’.Note: At least two other tracks, still extant, were recorded for It Don’t Bother Me but never released: ‘Joint Control’ and ‘Just Like You’. (top)
	Jack Orion (Transatlantic TRA 143) Released: September 1966 Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/banjo/vocal), John Renbourn (second guitar on ) Produced: Bill Leader Recorded: c. early summer 1966 at 5 North Villas, Camden, London The Waggoner’s Lad / The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face / Jack Orion * / The Gardener / Nottamun Town / Henry Martin / Blackwaterside / Pretty Polly Current CD availability: Jack Orion Castle Music CMRCD304 released 20 August 2001. Digitally remastered and gorgeously repackaged with classy slip-case featuring facsimiles of the original packaging plus 12 page glossy booklet with photos and brand new extensive sleevenotes. BUY Previous CD versions: Jack Orion (Vanguard 1991) a US-only reissue of Vanguard’s original 1970 US release of the album, rearranging the running order and including an alternate cover and the addition of ‘900 Miles’ from It Don’t Bother Me, which was never officially released in the States. Bert Jansch/Jack Orion (Demon 6/1993) and Jack Orion/Nicola (Castle 1997). Note: Until the release of the current reissue (August 2001, see above) the Vanguard CD boasted notably better sound than the UK releases – conceivably the label retained closer-to-first generation masters. The new UK release has sound quality comparable with the Vanguard CD. The Demon CD transfer of this album was very poorly executed, with one track actually ‘wobbling’ throughout. (top)
	Bert And John (Transatlantic TRA 144) Released: September 1966 Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar (plus vocal on )), John Renbourn (guitar) Produced: Bill Leader Recorded: c. early summer 1966 at 23 St Edmunds Terrace, St John’s Wood, London East Wind / Piano Tune / Goodbye Pork Pie Hat / Soho / Tic-Tocative / Orlando / Red’s Favourite / No Exit / Along The Way / The Time Has Come* / Stepping Stones / After The Dance Current CD availability: Bert and John Castle Music CMRCD203 released 20 August 2001. Digitally remastered and gorgeously repackaged with classy slip-case featuring facsimiles of the original packaging plus 12 page glossy booklet with photos and brand new extensive sleevenotes. BUY Previous CD versions: Stepping Stones (Vanguard 1991) a US-only reissue of Vanguard’s original 1968 US release of the album, rearranging the running order with an alternate sleeve and the addition of ‘My Lover’ and ‘It Don’t Bother Me’ from It Don’t Bother Me – neither track previously released in the States. After The Dance - Historic Collaborations (Shanachie 8/1992) is essentially a compilation of various Jansch/Renbourn/Pentangle instrumentals but draws both its sleeve design and nine of its 15 tracks from Bert And John. Bert And John (Wooded Hill 1996) retains the original packaging but enhances this very short original album with six stylistically similar tracks, including the two Nicola outtakes first heard on Transatlantic’s Box Of Love (1972) compilation and two yet more obscure edited versions of the Pentangle instrumentals ‘Bells’ and ‘Hole In The Coal’ only previously available on Transatlantic’s The Contemporary Guitar Sampler Vol. 2 (1970). (top)
	Nicola (Transatlantic TRA 157) Released: July 1967 Personnel: Bert Jansch (acoustic, electric and 12 string guitar/vocal), 15 piece orchestra Produced: Nathan Joseph (& David Palmer, musical arranger) Recorded: c. April 1967 at Decca Studios, London and Sound Techniques, London Go Your Way My Love / Woe is Love My Dear / Nicola / Come Back Baby / A Little Sweet Sunshine / Love is Teasing / Rabbit Run / Life Depends on Love / Weeping Willow Blues / Box of Love / Wish My Baby Was Here / If The World Isn't There Current CD availability: Nicola Castle Music CMRCD333 released 21/01/2002. Digitally remastered and beautifully repackaged with 12 page glossy booklet featuring photos and brand new extensive sleevenotes. Includes 2 bonus tracks: "In This Game' and "Dissatisfied Blues' BUY Previous CD versions: Nicola/Birthday Blues (Demon 11/93). Jack Orion/Nicola (Castle 1997). Note: An orchestrated version of 'Train Song' was attempted during the Nicola sessions but, while fondly remembered by arranger David Palmer, did not make the finished product. Neither did two further outtakes ?'In This Game' and 'Dissatisfied Blues' (both of which he performed live during the city hall tour of early 1967) ? although they later appeared on Box Of Love - The Bert Jansch Sampler Vol. 2 (1972), issued on Transatlantic shortly after Bert had left the label. They have also been resurrected on the new reissue of Nicola (see above). (top)
	Birthday Blues (Transatlantic TRA 179) Released: January 1969 Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal), Danny Thompson (bass), Terry Cox (drums), Ray Warleigh (alto sax/flute), Duffy Power (harmonica) Produced: Shel Talmy Recorded: c. October-November 1968 at IBC Studios, London Come Sing Me A Happy Song To Prove We All Can Get Along The Lumpy, Bumpy, Long And Dusty Road / The Bright New Year / Tree Song / Poison / Miss Heather Rosemary Sewell / I've Got A Woman / A Woman Like You / I Am Lonely / Promised Land / Birthday Blues / Wishing Well / Blues Current CD availability: Birthday Blues Castle Music CMRCD334 released 19/11/2001. Digitally remastered and gorgeously repackaged with classy slip-case featuring facsimiles of the original packaging plus 12 page glossy booklet with photos and brand new extensive sleevenotes. BUY Previous CD versions: Nicola/Birthday Blues (Demon 11/93). Birthday Blues/Rosemary Lane (Castle 1997). (top)
	Rosemary Lane (Transatlantic TRA 235) Released: June 1971 Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal) Produced: Bill Leader Recorded: June 1970-January 1971 at Ticehurst, Sussex Tell Me What Is True Love? / Rosemary Lane / M’Lady Nancy / A Dream, A Dream, A Dream / Alman / Wayward Child / Nobody’s Bar / Reynardine / Silly Woman / Peregrinations / Sylvie / Sarabanda / Bird Song Current CD availability: Rosemary Lane Castle Music CMRCD335 released 19 November 2001. Digitally remastered and gorgeously repackaged with very classy textured slip-case featuring facsimiles of the original packaging plus 12 page glossy booklet with photos and brand new extensive sleevenotes. BUY Previous CD versions: Rosemary Lane (Line 1990). Rosemary Lane (Wooded Hill 1996). Birthday Blues/Rosemary Lane (Castle 1997). (top)
	Moonshine (Reprise K44225) Released: February 1973 Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal), Danny Thompson (bass), Tony Visconti (electric bass/percussion), Garry Boyle (electric guitar), Ali Bain (fiddle), Ralph McTell (harmonica), Skaila Kanga (harp), Laurie Allen (drums), Dave Mattacks (drums), Dannie Richmond (drums ), Mary Hopkin (lead vocal ), Les Quatre Flute a Bec Consort (flutes), Richard Adeney (flute), Thea King (clarinet), Marilyn Sanson (cello) Produced: Danny Thompson Recorded: May 1972 in London (Sound Techniques?) Yarrow / Brought With The Rain / The January Man / Night Time Blues / Moonshine / The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face */ Rambleaway / Twa Corbies / Oh My Father Current CD availability: Moonshine Castle Music CMRCD112 released 22 January 2001. Classy reissue (with audio sourced from the excellent 1995 CD) in beautiful packaging, incorporating the original artwork with new sleevenotes and full lyrics. BUY Previous CD versions: Moonshine (Jansch Records 1995). With the masters believed lost, Bert’s manager Alan King had an excellent alternate CD master created using two mint condition original copies put through the Cedar noise reduction system to ‘repair’ any clicks or crackles. The release was the first of two on the short-lived label. (top)
	L. A. Turnaround (Charisma CAS 1090) Released: September 1974 Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar vocal), Jesse Ed Davis (guitar), Mike Nesmith (guitar), Jay Lacy (guitar), Red Rhodes (pedal steel), Byron Berline (fiddle/mandolin), Mike Cohen (electric piano), Klaus Voorman (bass), Danny Lane (drums) Produced: Mike Nesmith (10 tracks) / Danny Thompson (two tracks) Recorded: c. April-June 1974 at Luxford House, Sussex and Sound City, Supulveda, California; plus two tracks c. early 1973 from CBE Studios, Paris Fresh as a Sweet Sunday Morning / Chambertin / One For Jo / Travelling Man / Open Up the Watergate (Let The Sunshine In) / Stone Monkey / Of Love and Lullaby / Needle of Death / Lady Nothing / There Comes A Time / Cluck Old Hen / The Blacksmith Note: By the time Bert joined Charisma around late 1973/early 1974, he had already recorded what he intended to be his next album: eight tracks featuring himself either solo or with Danny Thompson, recorded at a session in Paris in early ‘73. Reprise, his label at that time, rejected the tapes as did Charisma – the latter preferring a complete break with the Pentangle era. Nonetheless, two of the eight tracks – ‘Chambertin’ and ‘Lady Nothing’ – were rescued for the Charisma debut. A further Paris track, ‘Doctor Doctor’, later appeared on A Rare Conundrum. The other five titles and, indeed, their current whereabouts are unknown but it may be conjectured that they were mostly or all songs re-recorded for L.A. Turnaround. Current CD availability: L.A. Turnaround EMI/Virgin CASCDX 1090 released 15 June 2009. The first-time CD release of the Charisma albums. Bert supervised the re-mastering himself as well as hand-picking the bonus material. Released as an ‘Enhanced CD' including newly discovered material from the album sessions and an amazingly atmospheric and previously unseen 13 minute film, made during the recordings of the album at Tony Stratton Smith's Sussex mansion and featuring Bert, Mike Nesmith, Red Rhodes and others recording and performing four songs as well as relaxing and playing pool. Beautifully re-packaged, featuring all the original artwork plus brand new specially written notes along with contemporary photos and memorabilia. BUY Previous CD versions: Unavailable in full. Five tracks are available on the 1974-79 compilation Three Chord Trick (Virgin 7/1993) and three on Dazzling Stranger: The Bert Jansch Anthology (Castle Music 11/2000). (top)
	Santa Barbara Honeymoon (Charisma CAS 1107) Released: October 1975 Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal), Jim Baker (guitar), Jay Lacy (electric guitar), Bill Smith (keyboards), David Barry (keyboards), George Seymour (synth), Robert Greenidge (steel drum), Don Whaley (bass), Ernie McDaniels (bass), David Hungate (bass), Danny Lane (drums), Tris Imboden (drums) plus massed brass and backing vocals Produced: Danny Lane Recorded: c. April-June 1975 at Sound City, Van Nuys, California Love Anew / Mary and Joseph / Be My Friend / Baby Blue / Dance Lady Dance / You Are My Sunshine / Lost and Gone / Blues Run The Game / Build Another Band / When the Teardrops Fell / Dynamite / Buckrabbit Current CD availability: Santa Barbara Honeymoon EMI/Virgin CASCDX 1107 released 15 June 2009. The first-time CD release of the Charisma albums. Bert supervised the re-mastering himself as well as hand-picking the bonus material. Includes newly discovered material from the album sessions as well as five newly discovered tracks recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 4 July 1975. Beautifully re-packaged, featuring all the original artwork plus brand new specially written notes along with contemporary photos and memorabilia. BUY Previous CD versions: Unavailable in full. Four tracks are available on the 1974-79 compilation Three Chord Trick (Virgin 7/1993) and three on Dazzling Stranger: The Bert Jansch Anthology (Castle Music 11/2000). (top)
	A Rare Conundrum (Charisma CAS 1127) Released: May 1977 in UK; possibly late 1976 in Denmark Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal), Rod Clements (bass/mandolin/guitar/vocal), Ralph McTell (harmonica), ‘Mantha (backing vocal), Mike Piggott (violin), Pick Withers (drums) Produced: Rod Clements (except ‘Doctor Doctor’, produced by Danny Thompson) Recorded: c. October 1975-July 1976 at Nova Sound, London and Air Studios, London, plus ‘Doctor Doctor’ from sessions at CBE, Paris in 1973 Daybreak / One To A Hundred / Pretty Saro / Doctor Doctor / 3 A.M. / The Curragh of Kildare / Instrumentally Irish / St. Fiacre / If You See My Love / Looking For A Home / Poormouth / Cat and Mouse / Three Chord Trick / Lost Love Note: Released in Denmark on Ex Libris as Poormouth, with an alternate cover and with ‘3 A.M.’, ‘Looking For A Home’ and ‘Cat and Mouse’ replaced by the following otherwise unreleased recordings: ‘Dragonfly’ (a song by former Clive Palmer band-member John Bidwell), ‘Candy Man’ and ‘Three Dreamers’. ‘Instrumentally Irish’ is also here retitled ‘Per’s Hose Pipe’, with minor differences to other track titles. Additionally, with this line-up recording numerous studio sessions during 1975-76, at Trident, Air and Nova Sound, some songs were recorded more than once. At least one otherwise unknown title, ‘Calls Out Your Name’, was recorded but is not believed extant. Current CD availability: A Rare Conundrum EMI/Virgin CASCDX 1127 released 15 June 2009. The first-time CD release of the Charisma albums. Bert supervised the re-mastering himself as well as hand-picking the bonus material. Includes the three tracks previously only available on the Danish version. Beautifully re-packaged, featuring all the original artwork plus brand new specially written notes along with contemporary photos and memorabilia. BUY Previous CD versions: Unavailable in full. Five tracks are available on the 1974-79 compilation Three Chord Trick (Virgin 7/1993) and one on Dazzling Stranger: The Bert Jansch Anthology (Castle Music 11/2000). (top)
	Avocet (Charisma CLASS 6) Released: February 1979 in UK; 1978 in Denmark. Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/piano), Martin Jenkins (mandocello/violin/flute), Danny Thompson (bass) Produced: Bert Jansch Recorded: February 1978 at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen Avocet / Lapwing / Bittern / Kingfisher / Osprey / Kittiwake Current CD availability: Avocet Castle Music (CMQCD763) released October 27 2003. Remixed and digitally remastered under Bert's own supervision in July 2003 and beautifully repackaged featuring both versions of the original artwork and a 12 page glossy booklet with photos and brand new extensive sleevenotes. BUY Previous CD versions: Previously unavailable in full. ‘Kingfisher’ is available on the 1974-79 compilation Three Chord Trick (Virgin 7/1993) while ‘Kittiwake’ appears on the 4 CD set The Famous Charisma Box (Virgin 1993), although both tracks were dubbed from disc. Note: Commissioned by and first released in 1978 on Ex Libris, in Denmark, with alternate album cover and one alternate track title, although no difference in recorded content. (top)
	Thirteen Down (Sonet SNTF 162) Released: July 1980 in the UK [Credited ‘The Bert Jansch Conundrum’] Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal), Martin Jenkins (mandocello/violin/flute/vocal), Nigel Portman Smith (bass/Fender Rhodes/accordion), Luce Langridge (drums/percussion), Jacqui McShee (lead vocal on ) Produced: Jansch/Jenkins/Portman Smith & Nic Kinsey Recorded: 1979 at Livingstone Studios, London Una Linea Di Dolcezza / Let Me Sing / Down River / Nightfall / If I Had A Lover / Time And Time / In My Mind / Sovay / Where Did My Life Go / Single Rose / Ask Your Daddy / Sweet Mother Earth / Bridge Current CD availability: Thirteen Down Ace 1998 [This is the UK release, with marginally different sleevenotes to the original reissue on Fantasy in the US (1998) from whom it is licensed] Note: Commissioned by Kicking Mule in the US, then licensed to Sonet for Europe, Thirteen Down originally appeared with at least three different sleeves, in the UK, US and Australia. There were also, on some or all of these packagings, dubious writing credits for ‘If I Had A Lover’ and ‘Sweet Mother Earth’, adaptations of a Swedish and Brazilian song respectively. The CD reissue repeats the writing credit problems but reverts to the superior UK sleeve design. (top)
	Heartbreak (Logo GOL 1035) Released: April 1982 Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal), Albert Lee (guitar/mandolin), Randy Tico (bass), Matt Betton (drums), Jack Kelly (drums), Jennifer Warnes (backing vocal ) Produced: John & Richard Chelew Recorded: June 1981 at Silverlake Studio, Los Angeles Is It Real? / Up To The Stars / Give Me The Time / If I Were A Carpenter / Wild Mountain Thyme / Heartbreak Hotel / Sit Down Beside Me / No Rhyme Nor Reason / Blackwaterside / And Not A Word Was Said Current CD availability: Heartbreak (Line 1990) and Heartbreak (Hannibal 7/1993). Note: Commissioned and recorded by the Chelew brothers (guitar retailers), I understand the album appeared on Kicking Mule in the US. (top)
	From The Outside (Konnexion KOMA 788006) Released: September 1985 [500 copies; only released officially in Belgium] Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/banjo/vocal) Produced: No producer credited Recorded: c. late 1983-1985 at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen and Hern Place Studios, Sunningdale From The Outside / Change The Song / Read All About It / Shout / Ah Sure Wanna Know / Time Is An Old Friend / If You’re Thinking About Me / Silver Raindrops / Still Love Her Now That She’s Gone / Get Out My Life / Sweet Rose / Blues All Around Me / From The Inside Current CD availability: From The Outside Castle Music CMRCD170 released 19 March 2001. Classy reissue in beautiful packaging, incorporating new artwork by Bert himself with new sleevenotes and full lyrics. This reissue retains all the extra tracks and the same mix as the 1993 CD (see below), and also restores (by dubbing from disc) one of the two missing tracks. (Bert felt the recording of ‘Blues All Around’ was not worth restoring. Admittedly the reworking of that track on Sketches, as ‘The Old Routine’, is superior.) BUY Previous CD versions: From The Outside (Hypertension 8/1993). This version was remixed under Bert’s supervision, with the running order also revamped. Tapes for two songs – ‘Ah Sure Wanna Know’ and ‘Blues All Around’ – could not be located and so they were omitted from the reissue but one song from the original sessions, ‘Blackbird In The Morning’ (felt by Bert to be the best of the lot), was rediscovered and restored to the CD. Two 1992 recordings, ‘River Running’ and ‘High Emotion’, were also added. Note: There is a persistent suggestion that this album, which was certainly available in however limited a form in the UK, also appeared on the UK heavy metal label Mausoleum. How? Why? (top)
	Leather Launderette (Black Crow CRO 218) Released: March 1989 [on LP & CD] Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/banjo/vocal), Rod Clements (electric & acoustic guitars/mandolin/bass/lead vocal on ), Marty Craggs (backing vocal) [Credited ‘Bert Jansch & Rod Clements’] Producer: Geoff Heslop Recorded: January 1988 at Cluny Studios, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Strolling Down The Highway / Sweet Rose / Brafferton / Ain’t No More Cane / Why Me? / Sundown Station /Knight’s Move / Brownsville / Bogie’s Bonny Belle / Leather Launderette */ Been On The Road So Long Current CD availability: Leather Launderette Black Crow CRO 218 (top)
	Sketches (Temple TP 035) Released: November 1990 [on LP & CD]; commissioned by and first released on Hypertension, Germany. Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/banjo/percussion/vocal), Peter Kirtley (guitar/percussion/backing vocal), Danny Thompson (bass/percussion), Steve Baker (harmonica), Stefan Wulff (percussion), Frank Wulff (alto flute/percussion/rainstick) Produced: Thompson/Jansch/Kirtley Recorded: 1990 at O-Ton/Ougenweide Studio, Hamburg Ring-A-Ding Bird / One For Jo / Poison / The Old Routine / Needle of Death / Oh My Father / Running, Running From Home / Afterwards / Can’t Hide Love / Moonshine / A Woman Like You / A Windy Day / As The Day Grows Longer Now Current CD availability: Sketches Temple TP 035. ‘As The Day Grows Longer Now’ was exclusive to the CD version. Note: An alternate mix of ‘Needle of Death’, restoring Peter Kirtley’s lead guitar to the track as recorded, was subsequently made available in Germany on a Hypertension label sampler, title unknown. An outtake from the sessions, ‘Come Sing Me A Happy Song’, subsequently appeared on the Pentangle-family compilation Anniversary (Hypertension 9/1992). (top)
	The Ornament Tree (Run River RRA 0012) Released: November 1990 [on LP & CD] Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal), Peter Kirtley (guitar), Nigel Portman Smith (bass/accordion), Dave Turner (bass), Maggie Boyle (flute/whistles/bodhran), Paul Boyle (fiddle), Richard Curran (fiddle), Steve Tilston (arpeggione/mandolin), Michael Klein (percussion/backing vocal) Produced: Michael Klein Recorded: 1990 at Heartbeat Sound, London The Ornament Tree (Bonny Portmore) / The Banks O’ Sicily / The Rambling Boys of Pleasure / The Rocky Road to Dublin / Three Dreamers / The Mountain Streams / The Blackbird of Mullamore / Ladyfair / The Road tae Dundee / Tramps and Hawkers / The January Man / Dobbins Flowery Vale Current CD availability: The Ornament Tree Castle Music CMRCD111 released 22 January 2001. Classy reissue in beautiful packaging, incorporating the original artwork with new photo and sleevenotes together with full lyrics. BUY Previous CD versions: The Ornament Tree (Run River 1990). (top)
	When The Circus Comes To Town (Cooking Vinyl COOK CD 092) Released: August 28 1995 [CD only] Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal), Colin Gibson (bass), Liam Genockey (drums), Mike Piggott (violin), Mark Ramsden (soprano saxophone), Bobby Barton (slide guitar), Tony Hinnigan (strings), Maggie Boyle, Janie Romer & Christine Collister (backing vocals) Produced: Uncredited [Bert Jansch/Jay Burnett] Recorded: Bert’s home & Boundary Row Studios, London Walk Quietly By / Open Road / Back Home / No-One Around / Step Back / When The Circus Comes To Town / Summer Heat / Just a Dream / The Lady Doctor from Ashington / Stealing the Night Away / Honey Don’t You Understand / Born with the Blues / Morning Brings Peace Of Mind / Living in the Shadows Current CD availability: When The Circus Comes To Town Cooking Vinyl COOK CD 092 BUY Note: ‘Born and Bred in Old Ireland’ was recorded during these sessions but omitted from the UK album. Bert’s manager intended to add it to a projected Japanese version of the album, which may or may not have happened. The track was re-recorded for Toy Balloon. (top)
	Live At The 12 Bar: An Authorised Bootleg (Jansch Records BJCD002) Released: August 1996 [CD only] Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal) Produced: Uncredited [straight-to-DAT concert recording] Recorded: 1995 at The 12 Bar Club, Denmark Street, London Summer Heat / Curragh Of Kildare / Walk Quietly By / Come Back Baby / Blackwaterside / Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning / Morning Brings Peace Of Mind / The Lily of The West / Kingfisher / Trouble in Mind / Just a Dream / Blues Run The Game / Let Me Sing / Strolling Down the Highway / A Woman Like You / Instrumental [later titled Bett’s Dance] Current CD availability: Live at the 12 Bar Essential ESMCD921 released 21 August 2000. Classy reissue with completely fresh outer packaging and new sleevenotes, released by Castle who were by now trading as Sanctuary though using a variety of labels for Jansch releases: e.g. Essential, When!, and Castle Music. The reissue still features, as before, the same incongruous set of 1965 pics inside! BUY Previous CD versions: originally available in a supposedly limited edition at gigs, in a dark blue and black sleeve, the ‘Jansch Records’ version was subsequently repressed and distributed by Cooking Vinyl (to whom Bert was actually contracted at the time), though it never appeared as an official Cooking Vinyl release. Some later pressings used the same artwork but with black and white replacing blue and black. (top)
	Toy Balloon (Cooking Vinyl COOK CD 138) Released: March 30 1998 [CD only]. Not released in USA. Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal), Marcus Cliffe (bass), Pick Withers (drums), Johnny Hodge (slide guitar/harmonica), Jay Burnett (keyboards), Pee Wee Ellis (saxophone), B. J. Cole (pedal steel), Janie Romer (backing vocal), Laura B (effects) Produced: Jay Burnett & Laura B Recorded: Castlekirk, Lochranza and Boundary Row Studios, London Carnival / She Moved Through The Fair / All I Got / Bett’s Dance / Toy Balloon / Waitin’ & Wonderin’ / Hey Doc / Sweet Talking Lady / Paper Houses / Born And Bred In Old Ireland / How It All Came Down / Just A Simple Soul Current CD availability: Toy Balloon Cooking Vinyl COOK CD 138 BUY (top)
	Crimson Moon (When! (Castle Communications) WENCD211) Released: June 26 2000 Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal), Johnny Marr (guitar/harmonica/backing vocal), Bernard Butler (guitar), Johnny ‘Guitar’ Hodge (guitar/harmonica), Loren Jansch (vocal), Adam Jansch (bass), Makoto Sakamoto (drums/percussion) Produced: Bert Jansch Recorded: late 1999-early 2000 at Bert Jansch’s own studio Caledonia / Going Home / Crimson Moon / Downunder / October Song / Looking For Love / Fool’s Mate / The River Bank / Omie Wise / My Donald / Neptune’s Daughter / Singing The Blues Current CD availability: Crimson Moon When! WENCD211 BUY Note: The first 10,000 copies were issued in gatefold packaging with a free ‘best of’ CD featuring ten tracks from the Transatlantic era. The album exceeded those sales within six months and was repressed again with the ‘best of’ CD, but even these are now sold out and the current pressing is Crimson Moon alone. (top)
	Downunder: Live In Australia (Castle Music CMRCD022) Released: January 22 2001 Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal), Peter Howell (bass) and Ian Clarke (percussion) Produced: Mixed at home by Bert Jansch Recorded: March 1998, over two nights at the Continental Café, Melbourne, Australia Blues Run The Game / Come Back Baby / The Lily of the West / Paper Houses / Toy Balloon / My Donald / Born and Bred in Old Ireland / She Moved Through The Fair / Carnival / Little Max / Strolling Down the Highway / Angi / Curragh of Kildare / Downunder / How It All Came Down Current CD availability: Down Under: Live in Australia Castle Music CMRCD022 BUY Note: Bearing only a slight overlap with Live At The 12 Bar in content, this was recorded on multi-track rather than straight to DAT, with consequently smoother sound and the rare bonus of accompanying musicians. The percussionist was added on after the gig recordings at a studio in Australia, and Bert mixed the tracks in London. (top)
	Dazzling Stranger: The Bert Jansch Anthology (Castle Music CMEDD009) Released: 18 September 2000 Disc One: Strolling Down the Highway / Angie / Running From Home / Needle of Death / It Don’t Bother Me / Lucky Thirteen / Blackwaterside / The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face / Soho / Rabbit Run / Woe Is Love My Dear / Bells / Wishing Well / Poison / I Am Lonely / Train Song / Nobody’s Bar / The January Man / Reynardine / Rosemary Lane / When I Get Home / Oh My Father Disc Two: Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning / Lost And Gone / The Blacksmith / Chambertin / You Are My Sunshine / Blues Run The Game / One To A Hundred / Sweet Mother Earth / Where Did My Life Go? / Blackbird In The Morning / Playing The Game / Is It Real? / Ladyfair / The Old Routine / Three Dreamers / The Ornament Tree / Summer Heat / Morning Brings Peace of Mind / Carnival / Toy Balloon / Looking For Love / October Song Current CD availability: Dazzling Stranger: The Bert Jansch Anthology Castle Music CMEDD009 BUY Note: For the first time, a Bert Jansch compilation drawing on material recorded for and owned by more than one label. Sanctuary/Castle licensed from several rights holders to make this the most definitive Jansch compilation available. Tracks are drawn from eighteen of the twenty-one Jansch albums up to Crimson Moon (2000) plus three Pentangle tracks and two from the Loren Auerbach album Playing The Game (1985), including the Jansch song ‘Is It Real?’ which was unavailable in its original form due to problems locating the rights-holders to Heartbreak (1982). The two other Jansch albums not sampled were the lack-lustre Leather Launderette (1989) and the classic Avocet (1979), the ownership of which was in question at the time of compiling. (top)
	Edge of a Dream (Sanctuary SANCD136) Released: October 7 2002 Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal), Bernard Butler (guitar), Hope Sandoval (vocal), Dave Swarbrick (violin), Ralph McTell (harmonica), Loren Jansch (vocal), Adam Jansch (bass), Johnny ‘Guitar’ Hodge (guitar), Paul Wassif (slide guitar), Makoto Sakamoto (drums/percussion), Colm O'Ciosoig (drums) Produced: Bert Jansch Recorded: 2002 at Bert Jansch’s own studio On the Edge of a Dream / All This Remains / What Is On Your Mind / Sweet Death / I Cannot Keep From Crying / La Luna / Gypsy Dave / Walking This Road / The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood / Black Cat Blues / Bright Sunny Morning Current CD availability: Edge of a Dream Sanctuary SANCD136 BUY Note: Castle Music having been taken over by Sanctuary Records Group, this album appeared on Sanctuary proper. (top)
Other Compilation Albums
NOTE: Bert Jansch tracks have appeared on numerous various artist albums – generally material deriving from his time with Transatlantic, Kicking Mule and Cooking Vinyl. Similarly, there have been several vinyl and CD Bert Jansch compilations using Transatlantic era tracks. These compilations are not listed here.
	Bert Jansch - Lucky Thirteen (Vanguard, 1966) Angie / So Long / Running From Home / Tinker’s Blues / I Have No Time / Lucky Thirteen / Needle of Death / Ring A Ding Bird / Casbah / Courting Blues / Oh My Babe / Veronica / Rambling [sic] Gonna Be The Death Of Me / The Wheel The first Bert Jansch release in America, compiled from his first two UK albums. Vanguard also released expanded versions of Bert And John (as Stepping Stones, 1968) and Jack Orion (1970). (top)
	Bert Jansch - The Bert Jansch Sampler (Transatlantic, 1969) Rabbit Run / The Wheel / Go Your Way My Love / Come Back Baby / Angie / Needle of Death / Wishing Well / The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face / Nottamun Town / Blackwaterside / Veronica / Running From Home There are no exclusive tracks here but this was the first Bert Jansch UK compilation and the only one to be compiled and annotated by Bert himself. “The songs may not be my best,” he said in the notes, “but they seem to me to be the most perfect things I have done as far as performance and recording goes.” He took the opportunity to correct the mistitling of ‘Veronica’ as ‘Casbah’ on the sleeve of his first LP – fans have, naturally, been somewhat confused ever since. (top)
	Bert Jansch - Box Of Love: The Bert Jansch Sampler Vol. 2 (Transatlantic, 1972) The second Bert Jansch UK compilation and the first of many to be compiled without Bert’s input or knowledge. On this occasion, he had just left Transatlantic for Reprise and Nat Joseph tempted the die-hards with two previously unreleased tracks: ‘In This Game’ and ‘Dissatisfied Blues’ (guitar/vocal leftovers from Nicola). (top)
	Various Artists - Just Guitars (CBS, 1984) Solo Jansch performances of ‘Is It Real?’ and the otherwise unrecorded Snooks Eaglin cover ‘One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer’ appear alongside a Jansch/Ralph McTell duet on ‘Angi’. This was a charity album all recorded live at one concert involving Jansch, McTell, Juan Martin, Earl Okin and John Williams. Jansch, McTell and Williams also appeared together on BBC TV’s Russell Harty to promote the venture. (top)
	Various Artists - Woody Lives! (Black Crow, 1987) Bert appears, alongside his duo partner of the time, Rod Clements, on three of this Woody Guthrie tribute album’s 10 tracks. He plays guitar on ‘Deportees’ and ‘Do Re Mi’ (both featuring Rory McLeod on vocals) and fronts ‘This Land Is Your Land’ with guitar and vocal. (top)
	Various Artists - Mastercraftsmen (Nico Polo, 1989) Bert’s track, ‘The Parting’, was Bert’s first ever recording with duo partner Peter Kirtley, produced by Gordon Giltrap. The album was a tribute to luthier Rob Armstrong and also featured Giltrap, Martin Jenkins, Kevin Dempsey, Pete Laity, Phil Beer and members of Fairport Convention. It was later reissued with different packaging, and in 2000 several of the tracks, ‘The Parting’ among them, appeared on the Terra Nova compilation Mr Straw’s Hallway. (No, I’ve no idea what the title’s about either.) (top)
	Various Artists - Derroll Adams’ 65th Birthday Concert (Waste Productions, 1990) [Belgium-only?] Bert performs ‘The Ornament Tree’ (here titled ‘Bonny Portmore’) and a unique solo version of ‘Ever Yes, Ever No’ [here credited ‘Song Of Indecision’] – sung by Jacqui on the next Pentangle album Think Of Tomorrow (1991). The album also includes a one-off reunion of Bert, John, Jacqui and Danny performing ‘Tell Me What Is True Love’ - a Jansch solo song previously undocumented in the group’s repertoire. (top)
	Pentangle - Anniversary (Hypertension, 1992) Although essentially a compilation of 1986-91 era Pentangle recordings, this also featured extended family tracks – material from Peter Kirtley (1992) and Sketches (1990) and the exclusive Sketches outtake ‘Come Sing Me A Happy Song’. It also included, controversially, all seven of the tracks performed by various permutations of Bert/John/Jacqui/Danny at the Derroll Adams birthday concert. Only four had been released on the original album (see above). Of the three ‘new’ tracks, all four perform together on ‘Sally Free & Easy’ and ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’. (top)
	Various Artists - Acoustic Routes (Demon/CODE 90, 1993) The soundtrack to the BBC2 documentary, Bert appears on 14 of the album’s 20 tracks, all of them live-for-the-camera performances: solo ‘Running From Home’, ‘Needle of Death’ and ‘High Emotion’; with Brownie McGhee ‘Don’t Pity Me’, ‘Walk On’ and ‘Parcel Post Blues’; with Albert Lee ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ and ‘If I Were A Carpenter’; with Jacqui McShee ‘Chasing Love’; with Anne Briggs ‘Go Your Way’; with Martin Carthy ‘The Elfin Knight’ [aka ‘Scarborough Fair’]; with Al Stewart ‘Blues Run The Game’; with Peter Kirtley ‘Let Me Sing’; with Billy Connolly ‘Country Blues’. In March 2001 ‘The Elfin Knight’ reappeared on the Martin Carthy box set The Carthy Chronicles, on Free Reed. (top)
Important Foreign & Archive Releases
	Live At La Foret (Nippon Columbia YX 7273AK) Released: 1980, Japan-only Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal), Martin Jenkins (mandocello/violin/vocal) [Credited ‘Bert Jansch & Martin Jenkins’] Produced: [straight-from-soundboard live recording] Recorded: March 22-23 1980 at La Foret Theatre, Japan Poormouth / Blues Run The Game / Bittern / Ask Your Daddy / Running From Home / Angie / Avocet / Let Me Sing / Alimony / Una Linea Di Dolcezza / Sweet Mother Earth Note: Many artists released Japan-only projects through Nippon Columbia, including John Renbourn who recorded So Early In The Spring, an album’s worth of exclusive studio tracks, around the same time. Bert and Martin agreed in principle to record something for the label but were unaware that their shows at La Foret were being recorded. This, and the obviously minimal production values, would account for the rather lack-lustre feel. (top)
	BBC Radio One Live In Concert (Windsong WIN CD 039) Released: September 1993 [CD only] Personnel: 1980: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal), Martin Jenkins (mandocello/violin/vocal), Nigel Portman Smith (bass), Luce Langridge (drums). 1982: Jansch, Portman Smith and Langridge plus Albert Lee (electric guitar) Produced: Jeff Griffin (1980) / Mike Hawkes (1982) Recorded: July 1980 (tracks 1-6) and April 1982 (tracks 7-13) at the Paris Theatre, London Poormouth / Running From Home / Kingfisher / Let Me Sing / Sovay / Alimony / Love Is Lost / Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning / Up To The Stars / If I Were A Carpenter / Sit Down Beside Me / Is It Real? / Heartbreak Hotel (top)
	Young Man Blues: Live In Glasgow 1962-64 (Ace CDWIKD 182) Released: November 1998 [CD only] Personnel: Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal) Produced: [live reel-to-reel recordings made by Frank Coia] Recorded: Now believed to span 1962-65, at various clubs in Glasgow Something’s Coming / Careless Love / Veronica / When Do I Get To Be Called Man? / Courting Blues / Angi / Tic-Tocative / Alice’s Wonderland / Meanest Man In The Town / Joint Control / Bottle Up And Go / Untitled Instrumental #1 / Train Song / Stagolee / Rocking Chair Blues / Me And My Baby Never Used To Have A Fight / Finches / Blues Run The Game / Pretty Polly / Come Back Baby / Untitled Instrumental #2 / I Am Lonely / Freedom / One Day Old / Train On The River / Hallelujah I Love Her So / Strolling Down The Highway / Gallows Tree / Betty And Dupree / Dry Land Blues Current CD availability: Young Man Blues: Live In Glasgow 1962-1964 Ace CDWIKD 182 BUY Note: Thirty of fifty-six available tracks were used, many of them otherwise undocumented Jansch blues covers but also the otherwise unknown Jansch originals ‘Freedom’ and ‘Meanest Man In The Town’ and the legendary ‘lost’ instrumental ‘Joint Control’. ‘One Day Old’, presented as a possible Jansch original in the notes, is in fact an Archie Fisher set of words to an American folk tune, as recorded by Owen Hand on Something New (1965). (top)
U.K.Singles
	Needle of Death EP (Transatlantic TRA EP 145) Running From Home / Tinker’s Blues / Needle of Death / Green Are Your Eyes (Courting Blues) / The Wheel Released: c. September 1966 Woe Is Love, My Dear / ? (Transatlantic ?) [flagged in the press as imminent but believed unissued] Life Depends On Love / A Little Sweet Sunshine (Transatlantic BIG 102) Released: June 1967 Oh My Father / The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Reprise K14234) Released: March 1973 In The Bleak Midwinter / One For Jo (Charisma CB 240) Released: October 1974 [non-album A-side] Dance Lady Dance / Build Another Band (Charisma CB 267) Released: November 1975 Black Birds Of Brittany / The Mariner’s Farewell (Streetsong No.1) Released: 1978 Charity single: non-album A-side credited to Conundrum & Richard Harvey; B-side credited to Shirley Collins & Annie Power; poster sleeve. Time And Time / Una Linea Di Dolcezza (Sonet SCK 44) Released: April 1980 (also released in USA on Kicking Mule, SOK 44) Heartbreak Hotel / Up To The Stars (Logo GO 409) Released: February 1982 On The Edge of a Dream / Walking This Road (acoustic) / Crimson Moon (Sanctuary SANXD185) Released: 28 April 2003 On The Edge of a Dream (from the Edge of a Dream album) was remixed specially for the single release in Sanctuary's Pro-tools room. The new acoustic version of Walking This Road (original version is on Edge of a Dream with full band) was also recorded at those sessions. Crimson Moon is taken from the album Crimson Moon (Castle 2000). The artwork features an original Bert Jansch drawing. BUY
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