Dazzling Stranger: The Bert Jansch Anthology is a compilation 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 August 2000. It is the first Bert Jansch compilation featuring material recorded for and owned by more than one label. Sanctuary

Sanctuary Records

Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world...

 / Castle licensed from several rightsholders to make this the most definitive Jansch compilation available.

Tracks are drawn from eighteen of the twenty-one Jansch albums up to Crimson Moon

Crimson Moon

- Credits :* Bert Jansch - guitar, vocals* Johnny Marr - guitar, harmonica, backing vocals* Bernard Butler - guitar* Johnny "Guitar" Hodge - guitar, harmonica* Loren Jansch - vocals* Adam Jansch - bass* Makoto Sakamoto - drums, percussion...

 (2000) plus three 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...

 tracks and two from the Loren Auerbach album Playing The Game (1985), including the Jansch song "Is It Real?" which was unavailable in its original form due to problems locating the rightsholders to Heartbreak

Heartbreak (Bert Jansch album)

Heartbreak is the fourteenth album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in 1982.-Track listing:All tracks composed by Bert Jansch; except where indicated#"Is It Real?"#"Up to the Stars"#"Give Me the Time"#"If I Were A Carpenter"...

 (1982). The two other Jansch albums not sampled were Leather Launderette

Leather Launderette

Leather Launderette is the sixteenth album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, recorded together with fellow musician Rod Clements. The album was released in March 1989. Reportedly Jansch suffered from health problems during the recording, but in 1987, after being rushed to hospital, he decided...

 (1989) and the classic Avocet

Avocet (album)

Avocet is the twelfth album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in 1979 in UK. The album was first released by Ex Libris in Denmark in late 1978 with alternate album cover and one alternate track title, although no difference in recorded content. The title song "Avocet" was inspired by...

 (1979), the ownership of which was in question at the time of compiling.

Disc 1

1. "Strolling Down the Highway" - 3:04
2. "Angie" - 3:12
3. "Running from Home" - 2:22
4. "Needle of Death" - 3:20
5. "It Don't Bother Me" - 4:28
6. "Lucky Thirteen" - 3:36
7. "Blackwaterside" - 3:46
8. "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" - 1:41
9. "Soho" - 2:59
10. "Rabbit Run" - 2:41
11. "Woe Is Love My Dear" - 2:19
12. "Bells" - 4:00
13. "Wishing Well" - 2:15
14. "Poison" - 3:15
15. "I Am Lonely" - 2:29
16. "Train Song" - 4:45
17. "Nobody's Bar" - 3:00
18. "The January Man" - 3:32
19. "Reynardine" - 5:21
20. "Rosemary Lane" - 4:03
21. "When I Get Home" - 5:00
22. "Oh My Father" - 4:10

Disc 2

1. "Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning"
2. "Lost And Gone"
3. "The Blacksmith"
4. "Chambertin"
5. "You Are My Sunshine"
6. "Blues Run The Game"
7. "One To A Hundred"
8. "Sweet Mother Earth"
9. "Where Did My Life Go?"
10. "Blackbird In The Morning"
11. "Playing The Game"
12. "Is It Real?"
13. "Lady Fair"
14. "The Old Routine"
15. "Three Dreamers"
16. "The Ornament Tree"
17. "Summer Heat"
18. "Morning Brings Peace Of Mind"
19. "Carnival"
20. "Toy Balloon"
21. "Looking For Love"
22. "October Song"