Bert Jansch - River Sessions
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Artist: Bert JanschEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2004-05-24
Music Label: River Records UK
Soundtracks:
- Build Another Band
- IĀ?Ve Got A Feeling
- One For Jo
- Blacksmith
- Travellin Man
- Lady Nothing
- Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning
- Angi
- Stone Monkey
- Dance Lady Dance
- When I Get Home
- In The Bleak Mid-Winter
- Running From Home
- Chambertin
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Music Review: Vintage live Jansch plus some essential rarities
Rating: 5 Stars
Bert Jansch's River Sessions live album is an excellent Jansch album for several reasons:
1) The performance and the recording (especially considering it is a low-fi live album) are top-notch. In addition to the great performances of the songs, it contains plenty of the eccentric and rambling banter that Bert is known for.
2) It contains unique performances of the songs. While some of the songs sound very close to their studio originals, many are entirely different. Most of the songs here are arguably improvements over their studio originals, and "Dance Lady Dance" in particular is a revelation. In its studio incarnation, Jansch's guitar is completely dubbed over with a dixieland band, but this version reveals one of his most interesting and unique guitar performances.
One reviewer referred to LA TURNAROUND and SANTA BARBARA HONEYMOON as Bert Jansch's weakest albums, but I strongly disagree. While SB HONEYMOON's slick, reverb-heavy production mars some of its tracks, it works very well on others and, in the end, the album is saved by its handful of successful songs and the novelty of it being the only album within the Jansch catalogue that sounds quite like that.
The SB HONEYMOON tracks that appear on THE RIVER SESSIONS are all ones that fall short in their studio incarnations, which makes THE RIVER SESSIONS all the more essential.
LA TURNAROUND, on the other hand, is probably one of Jansch's 5 best albums, as it contains one of his most consistent sets of songs and the California country musicians, while unfamiliar, do add an interesting mix to Jansch's sound. Some of the LA songs on THE RIVER SESSIONS sound very close to their studio versions, but a few sound very different. The LA songs were not as much in need of "rehabilitation" as the SB songs, but their alternate versions here are still very much worth owning.
In addition to playing tunes from his California albums on Charisma records, he also brings out two Pentangle tunes. While these songs also sound fine in their original incarnations, Jansch's solo performances are a good addition to his catalogue.
Usually live albums are mainly of interest to fans of the artist. I'd thought this was the case with THE RIVER SESSIONS, since much of my appreciation of it comes from my familiarity with other versions of the songs. But I once played this album for someone who'd never heard of Bert Jansch and they were immediately hooked, which doesn't often happen when I play his more famous albums (ROSEMARY LANE, for instance, doesn't seem to hook non-fans).
So, whether you're a casual Jansch fan or a hardcore collector, this album is essential.
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