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Now Playing: Bert Jansch reissues

18 Sunday Oct 2015

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Bert Jansch, folk, guitar

  
A good time for Bert Jansch reissues at the moment; and not just because autumn seems like the perfect time for listening to Jansch, Renbourn, and the fingerstyle folk guitar diaspora. Transatlantic Records are re-issuing early Bert Jansch albums and doing an excellent job of the re-mastering get: Bert and John in particular sounds deeper, clearer and crisper than previous versions.

The Earth label are on the case too, with Moonshine hopefully on its way to me in the post at the moment. 

Now will someone please re-issue Avocet on vinyl?

Summer is ecumen in

01 Wednesday May 2013

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folk, Hal An Tow, May Day, Waterson

The Watersons’ Hal-an-Tow: there’s no better May Day song.

A Very English Winter

20 Thursday Dec 2012

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folk, harmony singing, Music, new year, northumberland, unthanks, winter

An enjoyable documentary presented by the Unthank sisters, A Very English Winter makes a good case for the joys of communal singing in pubs. 

“You can do without Christmas, but you can’t do without Christmas singing”.

Not from the film, but very much related, here’s the Unthanks singing ‘Tar Barrel in Dale’:

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