It Don't Bother Me (2015 Remaster) Bert Jansch

• 1Oh My Babe (2015 Remaster)04:00
• 2Ring-A-Ding Bird (2015 Remaster)04:43
• 3Tinker's Blues (2015 Remaster)01:10
• 4Anti Apartheid (2015 Remaster)04:06
• 5The Wheel (2015 Remaster)01:50
• 6A Man I'd Rather Be (2015 Remaster)02:07
• 7My Lover (2015 Remaster)04:04
• 8It Don't Bother Me (2015 Remaster)04:29
• 9Harvest Your Thoughts of Love (2015 Remaster)02:16
• 10Lucky Thirteen (2015 Remaster)03:35
• 11As the Day Grows Longer Now (2015 Remaster)03:44
• 12So Long (Been On the Road so Long) (2015 Remaster)03:14
• 13Want My Daddy Now (2015 Remaster)01:39
• 14900 Miles (2015 Remaster)03:02
• Total Runtime43:59

Info for It Don't Bother Me (2015 Remaster)

Bert Jansch recorded his second album in 1965, just after his self-titled debut earlier that same year. The sessions were a step-up from the intimate, field-recording setting of his first album, although still not labored over too much in the studio.

"I figured that the faster I put down the tracks, the faster I could get out of the place," Jansch told NME, "so I just ordered about a dozen bottles of wine, put the microphone in front of me and off I went, for three hours."

The lyrics of It Don't Bother Me shift vividly between pure poetic imagery and the hollow resonance of pain. The LP's underrated title song stands as a manifesto for the way Jansch lived at the time. "My Lover," featuring guitarist John Renbourn, has almost sitar-like drones, while "Lucky Thirteen" is a captivating, melancholy instrumental that shimmers with brilliant fingerpicking.

This first-time domestic release is remastered from the original master tapes and features liner notes by Richie Unterberger. Bert Jansch's It Don't Bother Me remains another essential British folk album that belongs next to Nick Drake, Roy Harper and John Martyn in every record collection.

Bert Jansch, guitar

Digitally remastered

Bert Jansch
born in Scotland, he was steeped in American blues and jazz, North African music, and folk early in his career, and by the beginning of the ’60s he was playing the British folk clubs, extending his musical education. Artists like Martin Carthy and Anne Briggs turned him on to songs in the British folk tradition. By the mid-’60s Jansch had set up residence in London where he began and playing live shows, and by making the studio recordings that would come to influence a generation of songwriters, singers, and guitar players. Classic artists like Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Donovan, Elton John, and Nick Drake, all the way up to present artists like Fleet Foxes and Devendra Banhart, have acknowledged Jansch as a major influence and innovator of acoustic guitar playing. By his second album, Jansch was collaborating with John Renbourn, another seminal British folk guitar giant. Together in 1967, they formed The Pentangle, one of the most important British folk groups of the ’60s.

Bert Jansch is listed as one of Rolling Stone magazine’s “Top 100 Guitar Players Of All Time.”

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