Description
Release: 11-11-2022
Bert At the BBC is a comprehensive collection of Jansch’s appearances at the BBC, featuring over eight hours of rare and unreleased recordings, including live-on-air spots, studio sessions and full concerts straight from the BBC vaults, delving further into this legendary performer’s canon. Bert Jansch was the very essence of folk music, providing inspiration for everyone from Paul Simon and Neil Young to Led Zeppelin and countless folk revivalists. This unparalleled limited-edition compendium is available as a 4xLP and 8xCD set, housed in a coffee-table book set with a lavish 40-page book tracing the recordings from Bert’s earliest moments at the BBC. It includes interviews and insights from Lauren Laverne, Jools Holland, Johnny Marr, Jacqui McShee, Bob Harris, Bernard Butler, Mark Radcliffe and many more. Twenty broadcasters, producers and collaborators contribute at length to the booklet, with great affection for this gentle, maverick genius.Bert’s BBC legacy remains the most significant and exciting untapped reservoir of his music. The undeniable advantage of recordings made for broadcast is that they were, by their nature, created for public consumption and, barring live-on-air appearances – which might go well or go badly, but were going out either way – were explicitly signed-off by the artist as representations of his art that were good enough to be heard.The vinyl release features 48 tracks on LP and is accompanied by a download card with over six hours of extras spanning 1966-2009, including BBC4’s St Luke’s concert (2003), and a complete Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh concert (2004) for BBC Radio Scotland. It is also available as a special 8xCD set containing all 147 tracks and encased within a coffee-table book.Bert Jansch At The BBC is an epic and enduring trail, 45 years in the making.
Tracklist:
- A1 Whiskey Man (Guitar Club 1967) 2:19
- A2 Running From Home (Guitar Club 1967) 2:29
- A3 Interview 0:39
- A4 The Wheel (Guitar Club 1967) 1:25
- A5 Orlando (Top Gear 1968) 1:43
- A6 Thames Lighterman (Night Ride 1968) 2:38
- A7 I Am Lonely (Radio 1 Club 1969) 2:57
- A8 Speak Of The Devil (The Pentangle 1970) 4:07
- B1 Blues Run The Game (Folkweave 1977) 3:44
- B2 Daybreak (Folkweave 1977) 3:21
- B3 Running From Home (In Concert 1980) 4:55
- B4 Up To The Stars (In Concert 1982) 3:05
- B5 Heartbreak Hotel (In Concert 1982) 3:04
- B6 Angie (Russell Harty 1982) 2:09
- C1 Sweet Rose (Folk On Two 1988) 2:47
- C2 Knight’s Move (Folk On Two 1988) 2:46
- C3 The Snows (Night Ride 1988) 3:33
- C4 Been On The Road So Long (Night Ride 1988) 3:40
- C5 Bogie’s Bonny Belle (Night Ride 1988) 5:33
- D1 Heartbreak Hotel (Anderson On The Box 1992) 2:14
- D2 Stealing The Night Away (Bob Harris 1993 – Unbroadcast) 2:30
- D3 Walk Quietly By (Bob Harris 1993 – Unbroadcast) 4:00
- D4 Trouble In Mind (Bob Harris 1993) 2:32
- D5 When The Circus Comes To Town (Later… With Jools Holland 1996) 2:50
- D6 The River Bank (Later… With Jools Holland 2000) 3:35
- E1 High Days (Liz Kershaw 2004) 2:36
- E2 Blues Run The Game (Liz Kershaw 2004) 2:43
- E3 The Auld Triangle (Freak Zone 2006) 3:35
- E4 A Woman Like You (Freak Zone 2006) 3:42
- E5 It Don’t Bother Me (Mark Radcliffe 2006) 4:19
- E6 Angie (Unbroadcast 2006) 2:43
- F1 Empty Pocket Blues (Queen’s Hall 2004)
- F2 Courting Blues (Queen’s Hall 2004)
- F3 Rosemary Lane (Queen’s Hall 2004)
- F4 October Song (Queen’s Hall 2004)
- F5 Summer Heat (Queen’s Hall 2004)
- F6 Texas Cowboy Blues (Queen’s Hall 2004)
- G1 Crimson Moon (Queen’s Hall 2004)
- G2 Blackwater Side (LSO St Luke’s 2003)
- G3 Train Song (LSO St Luke’s 2003)
- G4 Fool’s Mate (LSO St Luke’s 2003)
- G5 Carnival (LSO St Luke’s 2003)
- H1 Running From Home (Celtic Connections 2008) 2:52
- H2 In The Bleak Midwinter (TT & Friends 2008) 3:20
- H3 Angie (Folk Awards 2009) 3:09
- H4 Blues Run The Game (Tom Robinson 2009) 3:50
- H5 Fresh As Sweet Sunday Morning (Tom Robinson 2009) 3:42
- H6 One For Jo (Tom Robinson 2009) 2:34
