Bert Jansch and his big debut album: more original than Dylan

From the young Paul Simon to Jimmy Page and Keith Richards to Neil Young, Bert Jansch’s debut album had such a lasting impact on an entire generation of guitarists that Jansch would have become a cult figure even if he never played solo or with Pentangle again record would have recorded.

Almost as mellow and emotionally profound as the late Vanguard recordings by Mississippi John Hurt, these are songs of timeless beauty that never patina because they were not attached to any zeitgeist. Years ahead at least and superior to all contemporaries – which brought him nothing commercially.

By Franz Scholer

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