Bert Jansch

Well hot damn, not sure how this dude was in my blind spot. I’m astonished by the talent Bertie J displays on the acoustic. You hear the influence his playing had immediately, for instance strolling down the highway is the same guitar lick as the for you blue and after reading the wiki, you find out that dudes like Neil swore by this guy. Unfortunately his lyrics and vocal delivery are a discount Leonard Cohen at best. Giving it a weak 4 as the influence and talent deserves acclaim.

Good stuff, especially liked the songs that were just instrumental. Big fan of Angie.

much better than I thought. I'm glad I gave him a chance

This was ok. Nothing particularly special about it. Some nice guitar playing, but overall I wasn’t overly enamoured with it.

Bert Jansch was one of the most influential fingerstyle guitarists ever. I’m not a fan of his singing and the recording is poor, so I can only give this album a four.

Да, инструментальные треки хороши Что-то удивляло, но в основном все спокойно, приятно и местами скучно 2.7

Normal

Acoustic folk is kind of my autumnal vibe, so this couldn't have been timed better. Was unfamiliar with him! Would def enjoy revisiting.

Dude is talented no doubt, this album just isn’t really my style.

enjoyed this far more than I thought I would

Si no fuera con esas canciones que rozan mi country, lo hubiera calificado mejor. Hubo varias canciones que me recordaron a Now That I Know de Devendra Banhart, canción que me encanta.

Like a Scottish Leonard Cohen, but not quite as charismatic or unusual. A worthwhile listen if on the quiet side.

Folk so gentle I could barely tell it was playing half the time. “Needle of Death” is heavy as hell though and the guitar playing is generally really cool.

It's fine for a guy with a guitar. Much better than the hippie shit folk music from yesterday. There's some quite good moments, but overall it's just kind of OK.

this is bad and not my vibe at all

Pretty decent stuff. I’m surprised this isn’t mentioned more when people discuss the 60s folk scene

Bien, mais manque de profondeur, un peu trop lisse

bro lowkey an awful singer

3+

The guy has a funny name and really good music.

I wasn't familiar with this artist at all. Unfortunately it was bit too folky with not much else for my taste. I can see why some would love this as it's not a bad album by any means, just didn't "wow" me like a lot of others on this list.

Has moments

Very enjoyable album, it didn't quite capture me

Folk really isn't my genre, but this was a decent album to have playing in the background. His guitar playing did catch my ears near the end of the album.

Enjoyable, not sure I would listen to it again

Another meh 60’s folk album…goody 😒

Eurocentrism of this list FINALLY pays off....how have I never heard of this dude?

This is a nice find for me and one of the reasons I'm resolved to complete the 1001 Album journey. I didn't know anything about Bert Jansch. That was a big hole in my musical education. Clearly the touch of a master.

I've had a major shift in opinion! I wasn't in a good mood when first listening, therefore my experience was impaired, however, now I love this album! My favourite tracks were the one that really showcased Jansch's guitar playing: 'Strolling Down The Highway', 'I Have No Time', 'Courting Blues' and 'Angie' were those. However, 2 songs in particular were so exceptional that I must mention them separately - 'Needle Of Death' is haunting and beautiful and 'Dreams Of Love' has the most perfect guitar that I've ever heard. This is really a masterpiece of Contemporary Folk!

Like listening to the Lemmiwinks song from South Park for like 40 minutes

If we're not going to get any John Fahey on this list then we might as well get his primitivist counterpart from across the pond. Actually, that's underselling him: these compositions are beautifully melancholic, both the instrumentals ("Veronica," "Smokey River") and the ones with vocals ("Needle of Death," "Do You Hear Me"). Jansch's voice is raw in ways that don't work perfectly but that's also a critical part of the package; he'd give up something in terms of immediacy if he were more polished. But other than that and the occasional lyric that needed one more revision, this is pretty close to perfect. A great folk discovery for me.

This was a pretty good mellow album and I enjoyed it very much

Wow, how uninteresting. Definitely needed to this to before I die!

An acceptable but standard folk album, this was a nice listen while on a nature walk. That being said, it was still a fairly average classic folk album

This sounded a lot like every other British folk rock musician featuring only an acoustic guitar and calming vocals. The album has good writing and impressive guitar playing that supports the somber and bluesy tones of the songs. This was an impressive first album for an otherwise unknown musician and the production sounded good for its time. I bet music snobs would be impressed by anyone who could name drop this guy.

A distinctly sparse, lo-fi recording of folk tunes, all original material, from Scotland's best answer to Dylan. Honestly, the homespun (literally in this case, as this was a home recording using reel-to-reel tape) approach makes this sound like one of those old Alan Lomax recordings of old folk songs. This album sounds like it could have existed in the 1930s, which makes it feel both of its time (don't forget that big 60s folk revival on both sides of the Atlantic!) and completely out of time all at once. Jansch himself gives a fairly compelling performance, if nasal folk singer is compelling to you anyway. The real highlights for me are the several instrumental sketches, each around a minute or so in length, which are there to prove the guitar isn't just there for show. While my personal favourite Jansch recording might be this one's follow-up, Jack Orion, this self-titled debut gives the listener a decent preview into the surprisingly prolific catalogue of one of Britain's unsung folk heroes. While nothing really jumps out and grabs a hold of you, the flitting, ephemeral nature of these songs reveals the silver lining: it attracts the listener to Jansch himself as a rambling hobo, a troubadour down on his luck. It establishes a rapport with the personality or character singing the songs, which is, in my mind, one of the most essential tenets of any memorable folk singer. Key Tracks: I Have No Time, Needle of Death, Rambling's Gonna Be the Death of Me

Incredible guitar playing and I love the mood the music puts me in, but on close listen the singing and (some) lyrics bring this down a lot

Very happy to have been introduced to this! Wonderful guitar playing, great songs and a pretty versatile voice. Great album. 8.5/10

3 stars for angie

Bore but nice playing

Some random dude with a guitar. So what?

3/5

absolutely gorgeous, like Donovan with less hippie bullshit

Ok

Highlights: Angie, Veronica This album was sold to a record company for one hundred quid. In today’s numbers, that’s £1,687.83, €1960.75, $2230.02 (USD) or $3181.63 (AUD) a time of typing. That sounds like Many would argue that Davey Graham was the spearhead for 60’s acoustic music. But you gotta give Jansch credit for helping Graham pave the way. Without them, we wouldn’t have John Martyn , Nick Drake and Fairport Convention. Overall: 5/10

Janskin bertti oli taas vanhaa kitara ja mies lauleskelua. Eli aika pitkäveteistä.

Lepposa Amerikkalainen folkkilevy Skottilaiselta muusikolta. Hyvää kitarointia ja perus laulantaa, mukavasti meni kuunnellessa.

Excellent guitar work.

I feel like I owe this one another listen. It's very low key and understated and deserves a more focused listen than I gave it while navigating rush hour traffic and shuttling my kids around to this activity or that. I'm gonna give it a 3 for now and may edit later.

Сука опять кантри фолк мужик

the debut album of musician bert jansch, recorded by himself and a borrowed guitar at a friend's flat, 15 tracks were put on a humble reel-to-reel tape recorder, sold for £100 to a record label, and somehow managed to sell 150,000 copies. this homemade tape really only helped jansch get further with his musical career. this opening summary is a little short, but this album was really something, let me tell you. how simple the recordings are and how they were just straight-up submitted, and how REALLY good it is even with the fact that this was literally... some guy using a recorder and a dream? this one is honestly really good... he's really going to town on the guitar, really advanced playing unlike anything you've heard before and some of the deepest songs you'll ever hear someone sing in plain, simple english. color me very impressed.

It was a good acoustic guitar album

Very middle of the road. Very obvious comparison is Nick Drake, they've got some similar vocal stylings, but his voice and guitar unfortunately lacks the je ne sais quoi that Drake has, leaving little for me to really latch onto and praise. Aside from Needle of Death, largely felt like sketches of songs to me Read his wikipedia, awful that him and his wife both died within 2 months of each other, both with cancer, must have been an absolutely hellish time for them

Sounded a bit nick drakey at times Wasn’t anything that special 3

So insane that this is one guy - he’s playing like melodies and countermelodies at the same time or something it’s awesome. Honestly don’t like it when he sings because it distracts from the playing and he can’t go quite so crazy. I think he might be the best guitarist of all time.

Found this inoffensive but incredibly boring, unaffecting and monotonous. It occupies more or less the same mood and sonic structures throughout its running time.

Surprisingly nice for just some dude and his guitar

Really nice acoustic playing. Quite sparse overall though.

3.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/bert-jansch/bert-jansch/ Certainly a pretty album and one that laid the foundation for a lot of folk(-inspired) albums to come. Guitar playing a impeccable at points, and the clear highlight of the album. Other than that, however, there's not too much to it that hasn't been done better by others further down the road. Certainly deserves the recognition, but can't see myself come back to this too much, probably.

Iconic, for those of us boomers/late boomers. I love much in folk music and Bert Jansch was a major influence on many bands/performers I love. Easy for me to acknowledge how important this album was for so many. Plus, I just love a good guitar folky. 5 "in tears" stars.

Elevators in Hell will be playing this

Nice little evenings music, I liked it a lot - nice melody’s too

It's fine, pretty forgettable but fine

#252/1001 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Aww Bert, what an absolute treat of an album. I have into double figures of his records but haven't ever got hold of this one. His body of work is so extensive and so consistently beautiful. Such a unique guitar style and gentle vocals and this recording captures the feeling that you are sitting in a room with him. Best Tracks: Smokey River, Needle of Death, Angie, Ramblings Gonna Be The Death of Me, Alice's Wonderland.

Pleasant enough, but I won’t return to any of the songs except “Needle of Death.” 2.5?

incredible guitar play and some songs, that are an absolute pleasure to listen to ("Smokey River" or "Angie"). overall, i wish there are a few more tracks of that top tier quality. feels like a few banger oases in a sea of fillers.

Це класний альбом. Колись його слухав.

At times this sound a little bit proto Nick Drake-ish and those are the best parts of the album. But overall I didn't find it very memorable. Might want to revisit some time in the future.

High skill guitar player, though a bit rough. I like it.

Some perfectly fine folk guitar, it's a genre I like, but this album didn't feel that special to me. It seems like Bert got included on this list because his playing influenced later British guitarists. I'm an ignorant American but I think this list maybe could have used just one album from Pete Seeger or Woody Guthrie or Phil Ochs instead.

Skilled playing, and not unpleasant to listen to, but overall just not the kind of thing I'm likely to revisit.

A little too folk for me

Love this, had the pleasure to see him play live not long before he passed. Very pleasant listening.

The guy on the cover looks like Carmy from The Bear. I'm assuming that's Bert. Anyway, this largely bored the hell out of me. Couple cool quick instrumentals, especially that last song Angie, but I didn't really like any of the songs with vocals.

I know him from Pentangle, but have never heard his solo stuff before so this is all new to me. I generally am not a fan of solo guitar strumming folk music, but if that’s a given, I like UK-type folk music better than American folk music, so this gets a point for that. Love the guitar on these songs, particularly the instrumental ones - it contains occasional notes that feel a little “off,” which I like. I can’t just spontaneously describe this method of guitar-playing in technical terms, but enjoyed what the wikipedia article on Jansch had of it. Reminds me of the playing of current guitarist Gwenifer Raymond, though she’s said to play in an American Primitive style.

A hard pass . no just no his voice is horrible

This was a surprisingly chill album. Nice surprise.

just Bert and his guitar jamming. I like. it's understated, and that's ok

good

This is a complete blind spot and pleasant surprise for me. Never even heard the artist before, and as I was listening, I heard the influence of many singers and songwriters that I admire. Great discovery, added to playlist, and if I had to pick a top track right now, it would be the closer Angie.

Quite nice

i wasn't at all familiar with bert jansch, and still mostly aren't. however, this is a lovely intimate jewel of a folk album that i'd gladly listen to again. just a man and a guitar. very nice. added it to my music library. 5/5

One guy and a guitar. Simple, rough around the edges folk music. I don’t feel a strong need to listen to this album again.

He sure loves his guitar. Shocked he even got £100 for this

Que xulo es como guitarra relajante pero con algo interesante que decir

9/10

Yeah, this is fine or whatever. Nothing that special. But it does beg the question as to why the 1961 album, Robert Johnson's "King of the Delta Blues Singers" is not on this list. Few, if any, albums could claim as much influence as that one. If it has been excluded due to a technicality, such as its recording date or status as a "compilation", that would be a grave injustice against and absolutely essential recording.

This is a sensational album. You can hear so many guitarists who this has influenced - Paul Simon, Donovan, Nick Drake....to name a few. I note that one reviewer complains that this is the 'annoying' style of guitar music you would hear at an open mic night and hope it is over quickly. Just a quick shout out to that reviewer - could you let me know where this open mic night is? If the quality of musician is of such a high standard! 5 stars all the way.

Too many albums on this list are like Beet Jansch's self titled. They're pleasant on the ear, sure, but they're just so uninteresting and samey.

Very soulful and beautiful singing. I enjoyed the album but nothing really pulled me in or made me want to come back to a certain song and listen again.

2, was really disappointed Angie didn't have lyrics? liked needle of death

Beautiful, intricate guitar playing. His voice isn't my favorite.

Bland and boring. Not all albums and songs stand the testament of time and this is a good example of that. A lot of plucking guitar and vocals, the vocals of which aren’t that good.

ddidnt like

3/5

Some really nice songs hidden in here, particularly the instrumentals. But perhaps there’s a couple too many overall.

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I must be missing something

non posso sempre ascoltare nick drake quindi ci sta variare

A welcome surprise. You can hear every British guitarist’s inspiration from this album from Jimmy Page to Noel Gallagher.