| Bert Jansch | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 16 April 1965 | |||
| Recorded | September 1964 – January 1965 | |||
| Studio | 5 North Villas, Camden, London | |||
| Genre | Folk[1] | |||
| Length | 39:19 | |||
| Label | Transatlantic | |||
| Producer | Bill Leader | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
| Uncut |  [4] |
Bert Jansch is the debut album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch. The album was recorded on a reel-to-reel tape recorder at engineer Bill Leader's house and sold to Transatlantic Records for £100. Transatlantic released the album, which went on to sell 150,000 copies. The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[5] It was voted number 649 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).[6]
The record includes Jansch's best-known song, "Needle of Death", which was inspired by the death of his friend, folk singer Buck Polly.[7]
- ^ "20 Best Folk Music Albums of All Time". NME. Time Inc. UK. 7 June 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- ^ MacDonald, Ian (October 1997). "Bert Jansch: Blackwater Side / Birthday Blues/Rosemary Lane". Uncut. No. 5. p. 91.
- ^ ^ Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (23 March 2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 978-0-7893-2074-2.
- ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 213. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.
- ^ Needle of Death Songfacts