RD; 30/1/26 Bert At the BBC is a comprehensive collection of Jansch’s appearances at the BBC, featuring over eight hours of rare and unreleased recordings, including live-on-air spots, studio sessions and full concerts straight from the BBC vaults, delving further into this legendary performer’s canon. Bert Jansch was the very essence of folk music, providing inspiration for everyone from Paul Simon and Neil Young to Led Zeppelin and countless folk revivalists. This unparalleled limited-edition compendium is available as a 4xLP and 8xCD set, housed in a coffee-table book set with a lavish 40-page book tracing the recordings from Bert’s earliest moments at the BBC. It includes interviews and insights from Lauren Laverne, Jools Holland, Johnny Marr, Jacqui McShee, Bob Harris, Bernard Butler, Mark Radcliffe and many more. Twenty broadcasters, producers and collaborators contribute at length to the booklet, with great affection for this gentle, maverick genius. Bert’s BBC legacy remains the most significant and exciting untapped reservoir of his music. The undeniable advantage of recordings made for broadcast is that they were, by their nature, created for public consumption and, barring live-on-air appearances – which might go well or go badly, but were going out either way – were explicitly signed-off by the artist as representations of his art that were good enough to be heard. The set is compiled by Colin Harper, author of Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British folk and blues revival (Bloomsbury, 2000), who contributes detailed liner notes to the package. The release is mastered by IFTA award-winning engineer Cormac O’Kane. The vinyl release features 48 tracks on LP and is accompanied by a download card with over six hours of extras spanning 1966–2009, including BBC4’s St Luke’s concert (2003), and a complete Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh concert (2004) for BBC Radio Scotland. It is also available as a special 8xCD set containing all 147 tracks and encased within a coffee-table book. Bert Jansch At The BBC is an epic and enduring trail, 45 years in the making. “He was that rarity, a musician who really did deserve to be regarded as a legend.” The Guardian “As a guitar player there was no one like him. He was jazz and blues and folk but there was a whole world in there that was just him, esoteric” Johnny Marr TRK LIST; LP One - Side AA1 Whiskey Man (Guitar Club, Light Programme, 1966)A2 Running from Home (Guitar Club, Light Programme, 1966)A3 Interview (Guitar Club, Light Programme, 1966)A4 The Wheel (Guitar Club, Light Programme, 1966)A5 Orlando (Top Gear, BBC Radio 1, 1968)A6 Thames Lighterman (Night Ride, BBC Radio 1, 1968)A7 I Am Lonely (Radio 1 Club, BBC Radio 1, 1969)A8 Speak of the Devil (The Pentangle, BBC Radio 1, 1970)LP One - Side BB1 Blues Run the Game (Folkweave, BBC World Service, 1977)B2 Daybreak (Folkweave, BBC World Service, 1977)B3 Running from Home (In Concert, BBC Radio 1, 1980)B4 Up to the Stars (In Concert, BBC Radio 1, 1982)B5 Heartbreak Hotel (In Concert, BBC Radio 1, 1980)B6 Angie (Russell Harty, BBC1, 1982)LP Two - Side CC1 Sweet Rose (Folk on 2, BBC Radio 2, 1988)C2 Knight’s Move (Folk on 2, BBC Radio 2, 1988)C3 The Snows (Night Ride, BBC Radio 2, 1988)C4 Been on the Road So Long (Night Ride, BBC Radio 2, 1988)C5 Bogie’s Bonny Belle (Night Ride, BBC Radio 2, 1988)LP Two - Side DD1 Heartbreak Hotel (Anderson on the Box, BBC NI, 1992)D2 Stealing the Night Away (Bob Harris, Unbroadcast, 1993)D3 Walk Quietly By (Bob Harris, Unbroadcast, 1993)D4 Trouble in Mind (Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2, 1993)D5 When the Circus Comes to Town (Later... with Jools Holland, BBC2, 1996)D6 The River Bank (Later...with Jools Holland, BBC2, 2000)LP Three - Side EE1 High Days (Liz Kershaw, BBC 6 Music, 2004)E2 Blues Run the Game (Liz Kershaw, BBC 6 Music, 2004)E3 The Auld Triangle (Freak Zone, BBC 6 Music, 2008)E4 A Woman Like You (Freak Zone, BBC 6 Music, 2008)E5 It Don’t Bother Me (Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2, 2006E6 Angie (Freak Zone, BBC 6 Music, 2008)LP Three - Side FF1 Empty Pocket Blues (Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, BBC Radio Scotland, 2004)F2 Courting Blues (Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, BBC Radio Scotland, 2004)F3 Rosemary Lane (Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, BBC Radio Scotland, 2004)F4 October Song (Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, BBC Radio Scotland, 2004)F5 Summer Heat (Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, BBC Radio Scotland, 2004)F6 Texas Cowboy Blues (Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, BBC Radio Scotland, 2004)LP Four - Side GG1 Crimson Moon (Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, BBC Radio Scotland, 2004)G2 Blackwater Side (60th Birthday Concert, LSO St Lukes, BBC4, 2003)G3 Train Song (60th Birthday Concert, LSO St Lukes, BBC4, 2003)G4 Fool’s Mate (60th Birthday Concert, LSO St Lukes, BBC4, 2003)G5 Carnival (60th Birthday Concert, LSO St Lukes, BBC4, 2003)LP Four - Side HH1 Running from Home (Celtic Connections, BBC Scotland, 2008)H2 In the Bleak Midwinter (Teddy Thompson and Friends, BBC Radio 2, 2008)H3 Angie (Radio 2 Folk Awards, BBC Radio 2, 2009)H4 Blues Run the Game (Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music, 2009)H5 Fresh as a Sweet Sunday Morning (Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music, 2009)H6 One for Jo (Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music, 2009)DOWNLOAD CARD: Includes an additional 6 hours of music from the BBC archives
