nogutsnoglory studios » Bert Jansch http://nogutsnoglorystudios.squareone-learning.com home of sound designer/composer kamelmauz and compiler dub collision Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:23:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Bert, Red, and Pa Nes http://nogutsnoglorystudios.squareone-learning.com/index.php/2010/02/bert-red-and-pa-nes/ http://nogutsnoglorystudios.squareone-learning.com/index.php/2010/02/bert-red-and-pa-nes/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:52:27 +0000 admin http://nogutsnoglorystudios.squareone-learning.com/?p=829

English folkie Bert Jansch collaborated with Mike Nesmith on his 1974 gem,L.A. Turnaround. Nesmith brought along his colleague, pedal steel guitarist Red Rhodes too. By this time, Nesmith was three years into his travels down his own distinctive country-rock byway. Jansch had left Pentangle and returned to a solo career.

I don’t know the back story behind L.A. Turnaround, one of Jansch’s finest–among many fine–records. Much to my surprise, there are on youtube a series of clips of sessions featuring Jansch and Red Rhodes. The setting is a country cottage in Britain. The sessions are marvelous and intimate. Eventually, Nesmith would augment tracks cut in the impromptu studio with contributions from L.A. session men, guitarist Jesse Ed Davis and fiddler Byron Berline, as well as Brits, including bassist Klaus Voorman, and drummer Danny Lane.

The three youtube clips comprise a beguiling mini-documentary.

(L.A. Turnaround was reissued last year. Amazon)

Bert Jansch

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