Bert And John
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Bert And John is the fourth album by Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 folk musician Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch
Herbert "Bert" Jansch was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s, as an acoustic guitarist, as well as a singer-songwriter...

, released in 1966. A number of songs are performed with friend and fellow guitarist John Renbourn
John Renbourn
John Renbourn is an English guitarist and songwriter. He is possibly best known for his collaboration with guitarist Bert Jansch as well as his work with the folk group Pentangle, although he maintained a solo career before, during and after that band's existence .While most commonly labelled a...

, who would later join him in the group Pentangle
Pentangle (band)
Pentangle are a British folk rock band with some folk jazz influences. The original band were active in the late 1960s and early 1970s and a later version has been active since the early 1980s...

. An expanded version of the album was later released in America in 1969 by Vanguard
Vanguard Records
Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...

 as Stepping Stones. It featured two extra tracks, "It Don't Bother Me" and "My Lover".

Track listing

  1. "East Wind" (Jansch, Renbourn) - 1:25
  2. "Piano Tune" (Jansch, Renbourn) - 1:39
  3. "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" (Mingus
    Charles Mingus
    Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...

    ) - 3:51
  4. "Soho" - (Jansch) - 3:00
  5. "Tic-Tocative" (Jansch, Renbourn) - 1:56
  6. "Orlando" (Jansch, Renbourn) - 1:40
  7. "Red's Favourite" (Jansch, Renbourn) - 1:33
  8. "No Exit" (Jansch, Renbourn) - 1:24
  9. "Along the Way" (Renbourn) - 2:02
  10. "The Time Has Come" (Briggs
    Anne Briggs
    Anne Briggs is an English folk singer. Although she traveled widely in the 1960s and early 1970s, appearing at folk clubs and venues in England and Ireland, she never aspired to commercial success or to achieve widespread public acknowledgment of her music...

    ) - 2:53
  11. "Stepping Stones" (Jansch, Renbourn) - 2:42
  12. "After the Dance" (Jansch, Renbourn) - 2:23

1969 Vanguard US release track listing

  1. "East Wind" (Jansch, Renbourn) - 1:22
  2. "Piano Tune" (Jansch, Renbourn) - 1:27
  3. "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" (Mingus) - 3:49
  4. "Soho" - (Jansch) - 2:59
  5. "Tic-Tocative" (Jansch, Renbourn) - 1:55
  6. "Orlando" (Jansch, Renbourn) - 1:37
  7. "My Lover" (Jansch) - 4:04
  8. "Stepping Stones" (Jansch, Renbourn) - 2:41
  9. "Red Favourite" (Jansch, Renbourn) - 1:31
  10. "It Don't Bother Me" (Jansch) - 4:25
  11. "No Exit" (Jansch, Renbourn) - 1:22
  12. "Along the Way" (Renbourn) - 2:02
  13. "The Time Has Come" (Briggs) - 2:52
  14. "After the Dance" (Jansch, Renbourn) - 2:25
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