Let me open with a warm thank you to Boyhowdy for inviting me to do this, and for helping to bring it to life. My name is Darius. I have been an eager reader of and listener to this blog for some time now. One day, I followed a link from here and found myself at Star Maker Machine , where I am now an occasional poster. That's where Boyhowdy found me. Life is indeed a circle. Many great folk songs found in this country were born in the British Isles, [...]
Not much time to write today but the Pentangle's early albums are, far and away, some of the most enjoyable albums I've ever heard. Sure, the jazz-folk combo is not everybody's cup of tea but the quality of everything is really top notch. Basket of Light, released in the grand old year of 1969, is the [...]
Thanks to email submissions, new releases and discoveries, and a newly-purchased CD repair kit, it's time for yet another edition of (Re)Covered , a monthly feature here on Cover Lay Down in which we recover a few songs that dropped through the cracks just a little too late to make it into the posts where they belonged. I saw Lucy Kaplansky last month at the UnCommon Coffeehouse with my father; as always, she turned in a wonderful, intimate set, including great covers [...]
I knew Pentangle from the late 1960's, and I knew Bert Jansch and John Renbourn were two of the five musicians, but that's about all I know. Not wanting to leave anyone in the dark, I went hunting. http://www.jacquimcshee.co.uk/ old_home.htm MP3 File
The praises of Bert Jansch have been sung numerous times on these pages in the past, but never has there been a post dedicated solely to Pentangle, the quintessential sixties English folk group made up of Jansch, Jacqui McShee, John Renbourn, Terry Cox and Danny Thompson. Pentangle's jazz inflected English folk is as unique, and different, [...]
Freak-folk would be nothing without the work of this man: On October 17th Drag City Records releases the long awaited Bert Jansch album, The Black Swan. The album was produced by Noah Georgeson (Joanna Newsom â€" Milk-Eyed Mender, Devendra Banhart â€" Cripple Crow) and guest musicians including Devendra Banhart, Beth Orton, Otto Hauser (Espers, Vetiver), Helena Espvall (Espers), Kevin Barker (Currituck Co.), Paul Wassif and Adam Jansch. The Black Swan - Bert Jansch One of the [...]
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