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Now this really is a switch: Scottish guitar hero and songwriter Bert Jansch (Pentangle) recording for Drag City, with a host of admirers in tow - Beth Orton, Devendra Banhart, Noah Georgeson (who performed and co-produced with Jansch), Helena Espvall, son Adam Jansch, and more. Black Swan is a collection of original and traditional tunes. Jansch turns in a performance that shows his typical restraint, and within it his wonder as a guitarist. His use of the blues, American, Celtic, and British Isles folk forms is also informed by music from Eastern Europe, and he ties them all together seamlessly.

'High Days,' a solo track, uses all three, as he winds out an elegy for a friend. 'When the Sun Comes Up' begins with Orton's vocal and David Roback's slide guitar and Otto Hauser's drums, shuffling underneath.

Jansch spills it modal and bluesy, Orton grabs onto his changes and effortlessly lets her voice wrap around his lyric lines. Her signing on the traditional number 'Katie Cruel' has been brilliantly rearranged by Jansch. Banhart sings in a muted duet with Orton, but his vocal was unnecessary. It's a spooky track that's been prepared for by the preceding cuts.

Bert Jansch Birthday Blues

The slippery Piedmont blues style Jansch tucks into his British folk on 'My Pocket's Empty' is evocative of an earlier, simpler time, though as revealed by the tune, times were hard then, too. Jansch's singing is at its most expressive here; he's moaning in his reedy baritone. Orton makes one more appearance here on the gorgeous and-all-too-brief arrangement of the blues tune 'Watch the Stars.' Hers and Jansch's vocals take the tine out of the song's Southern American birthplace and brings it into the world, one grainy line at a time. It's a singalong blues that reveals the sheer expanse of the universe in the grain of their voices.

Ultimately, this disc is not so different from Jansch's others, but it is wonderfully spirited and loose. It feels live, and backroomish. It's as informal a date as one can find among superstars - and make no mistake, you may or may not know his name, but his large catalog proves it - Jansch is one. As for the rest, the hardscrabble dirty, slide guitar-drenched English folk of 'A Woman Like You' rings as true as a Texas blues love song by Lightnin' Hopkins. Traditional public domain nuggets such as 'The Old Triangle' are almost radically reworked and ring spookily true for the current era. The blues-rock of the humorously political 'Texas Cowboy Blues,' complete with keyboards and popping acoustic 12-strings, shimmies and even shakes in places. The last few cuts, a gorgeous instrumental called 'Magdalina's Dance,' and 'Hey Pretty Girl' (performed solo), are drenched in historical tropes, but are thoroughly modern and soulful.

The bottom line is this: for the past ten years Jansch has been undergoing a creative renaissance akin to Bob Dylan's and people are slowly but surely finding what he has on offer. Black Swan proves that the guitarist and songwriter has a bounty at his disposal.

He is writing and recording music that is profound, funny, topical, worldly, and ultimately, necessary.

Please read the full description: Herbert 'Bert' Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s, as an acoustic guitarist, as well as a singer-songwriter. He recorded at least 25 albums and toured extensively from the 1960s to the 21st century. Bert Jansch is my guitar hero.

He is widely regarded as one of the most influential folk singer/songwriters of his generation and despite not becoming a runaway success like the likes of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Donovan etc, he quite rightly must be mentioned in the same breath as them. Bert was a phenomenal guitarist and a soothing singer whose lyrics captivated minds and took them to forgotten times of old. His music is a testament to the sheer genius contained within him and he will remain one of the greatest folk singers of all time. It's a bit sad that not many people have heard of him or his music considering his obvious genius but my aim is to change that with the upload of this album. I want future generations to 'feel' Bert's music and get in tune with what he was all about - beautiful music. I have his entire discography on a hard-disk that is being recovered and spent many a day and night just listening to him sooth my ears.

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His guitar playing is as unique as they come and his Scottish roots give his voice a definite edge. His music evokes a tingling sense of medieval times gone by and casts your mind into lands and stories unheard of and untold. The Album: The Black Swan This album was his last ever studio album released in 2006, five years before he finally passed in 2011. It's a genuine work of art and left behind the last trace of what the world had missed out on during his lifetime. Pitchfork described the album as, ' Recorded some 40 years after his first two brilliant albums on England's Transatlantic Records, The Black Swan isn't exactly a comeback. Jansch has been working all along, releasing nearly a dozen albums since 1990.

For this generation, however, it is Jansch's popular come-out: From Devendra Banhart to Ben Chasny, many principles of the indie roots resurgence have credited his complex playing and artless vocals as touchstones.Thankfully, the album doesn't sound preconceived or laborious. It doesn't sound like it's been talked about.

It's immaculate but natural.' It's a shame Bert didn't become that popular outside the UK, but hopefully, ardent fans of his work like me are trying to change that! No money is being made off this video(monetization is off) and all copyrights go to Bert, his family and the labels he released his records on.

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I hope the labels let me keep this video online, it's for Bert and for people to listen to more of his music. If you like this and want more, listen to his debut album titled 'Bert Jansch' released in 1964. You won't have to look too far other than for this as I have made a playlist of that entire album about a year ago.

Bert Jansch: Bert JanschFull Album (1964) To buy Bert's albums and I sincerely suggest you do because they are absolute gold, visit his website To buy this particular album you can either do it on his website or visit Discogs He's my guitar hero. RIP Bert Jansch. Tracklist: The Black Swan The High Days When the sun comes up Katie Cruel My Pocket's Empty Watch The Stars A Woman Like You The Old Triangle Texas Cowboy Blues Magdalina's Dance Hey Pretty Girl.