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October 2023

Bert Jansch remembered: the songs (3) Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning

See all items covering the Bert Jansch commemoration at this link: https://www.salutlive.com/bert-jansch/ John Clark, a son of Sunderland happily exiled in Spain, plays, writes and sings his own sings as well as covering those of others. He responded to our... Read more →


Bert Jansch remembered: the songs (2) Needle of Death

See all items covering the Bert Jansch commemoration at this link: https://www.salutlive.com/bert-jansch/ Colin Randall writes: This is my own offering to our mini-series on specific Bert Jansch tracks. It's a song that hurt to hear, hurt to play, chronicling yet... Read more →


Bert Jansch remembered. The songs: (1) Let me Sing

See all items covering the Bert Jansch commemoration at this link: https://www.salutlive.com/bert-jansch/ Let me introduce a new mini-series intended as apart of Salut! Live's coverage of what would have been the 80th birthday of Bert Jansch, a hero of acoustic... Read more →


Song of the Day Revisited: Fairport Convention ... Crazy Man Michael

Another quick update, Oct 2023: Dave Swarbrick's widow Jill has firmly and correctly reminded me that the gorgeous music that so perfectly suits Richard Thompson's words for this song was composed by the mighty Swarb. Read her comment below, reproduced... Read more →


Folk dance from the White Heather Club to the Appalachians via Ireland

If you grew up when and where I grew up, folk dancing meant the White Heather Club, a BBC programme that ran off and on for 10 years from 1958. It was unbelievably corny and presented what I have seen... Read more →