Bert Jansch & Finn Kalvik :: Norwegian Television (May 7, 1973)

It’s officially Bert Jansch season. Recorded live in the spring of 1973 for Norwegian television, the following twenty-eight minute session finds the Scottish troubadour in the company of Norwegian folkie Finn Kalvik. The set kicks off with the pair collaborating on Jansch’s own “Running From Home” (via his 1965 s/t LP) before sliding into an alternating guitar pull between the two musicians. Koselig!

Bert Jansch :: Bert At The BBC

The highlight of this exhaustively curated set are the performances which allow us to listen in to a full concert or series of tunes. It is here that we experience Bert’s crowning achievement—the temporal transcendence of music consciousness. From one song to the next Jansch could transport his audience to 1930’s Mississippi, the court of King James, or a 1974 folk club in Soho without missing a beat.

Bert Jansch :: Avocet

There were probably cooler things for Bert Jansch to do in the late 1970s than make an instrumental folk-jazz concept record about birds … but the late guitarist was never […]