Bert Jansch - Black Swan
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Free Music Review: Folk for the folks
Hit: 5 Stars
Exquisite musicianship from Bert Jansch on a great collection of songs. Beautiful if dour Scottish "rock and roll" from one of our best folk guitarists. The thrall only grows with additional listening.Free Music Review: great, love the vocals
Hit: 5 Stars
Back at it with a great guest vocalist. Some new and old tunes show he still has the stuffFree Music Review: go with the flow
Hit: 4 Stars
Sometimes you buy a cd on instinct- this was not my instinct. Bert has a voice like a sinus infection but he undeniably has a way with folky melody. The best songs on this cd are the duets with Beth Orton (but that's my opinion) If you like Bonnie Prince billy then no harm you will find you here.
Echoes of Nick drake with the cello espec on the black swan (ends in beautiful synch cello-guitar).
My gut feeling is ' not bad- intrigued, may well investigate more'
Free Music Review: How can I possibly give this cd such a bad review?
Hit: 2 Stars
I purchased this cd after only hearing the brilliantly arranged/performed "Katie Cruel" on Pandora.com. Absolutely fascinating! The reviews of this cd here on Amazon were so positive. And from what I understand, Bert Jansch is very influential in the folk scene. The cd art work is very nice, the guitar playing here is drop-dead beautiful, the tunes are all good, but why does he have to sing lead on most of his songs??? One kinder reviewer here related Bert's voice to a sinus infection. I believe it is worse. He regularly drifts into degrees of flatness, has awful phrasing, and frequent unintelligible mumblings that are simply not musical. Sort of reminds me of another great, John Renbourn, only not even that good.
I will not continue to listen to this cd, despite the great guitar. too bad for me. I truly hope I can find some of Bert's music that is performed without his singing. If I do I will probably purchase it.
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