Bert Jansch, search and destroy.

i just put on avocet and a minute or two in and was thinking "this is dope but i could really use some danny thompson" and at that moment the bass dropped. like to flip my desk.

I'm on the fence about buying Avocet. I like-but-don't-love most of Bert's solo stuff, and have a low tolerance for his tendency toward what The Wire calls "baroque formality." What I mean is I like his jazzy jammin,' less his stuff that sounds like something you could seamlessly put on a mix alongside Malcolm Dalglish or somebody.

hmm i don't know malcolm daglish, but i'd say that jazzy jammin' is mainly what's happening on avocet?

Has anyone seen this?

It's a bit pricey but I'm intrigued by not only the show (which I guess was released in VHS form at some point?) but the bonus stuff.

Taking in Avocet this morning. What an absolutely gorgeous record. Much as I love his voice and lyrics, Avocet is slowly becoming my favorite record of his. Just really warm and rewarding music.

was having a bert day and thought i'd share this cos i hadn't seen it before and it's lovely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML3XahMwJ-U

that mandoline through fx pedals sounds so good!

mandolin even. if indeed it is a mandolin

I think that's a mandola? Or big fuck-off mandolin, to give it its proper name.

That's gorgeous. An early outing for Sean Bean on bass too.

Got a stupidly reasonably priced copy of the *A Man I'd Rather Be pt.1* vinyl box, which features his first four albums. It's a lovely item but quite weird for a box set? It's more like a folder I guess, with the first album's artwork as the cover art; the records are nested inside in decorative sleeves, but not the original artwork. Rights issue maybe? Aesthetic choice?

Anyway, only a mild grumble when the music is this incredible.