From the Outside is the fifteenth 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 as a limited edition of 500 copies in Belgium

Belgium

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 in 1985. From The Outside was available in the UK as well, but the label is unknown.

Colin Harper

Colin Harper

Colin Harper is an Irish music journalist. He was born in Belfast and graduated in 1989 from Queen's University, Belfast. As a writer for the Belfast "Irish News" he wrote unsiged features on local bands and famous bands on tour...

 describes the album on his Bert Jansch biography, "Dazzling Stranger": "Towards the end of 1985 a solo album called From the Outside appeared, but only just. Cobbled together from sessions in Denmark and London, with unsympathetic engineers and featuring only guitar and voice, it was Bert's rawest and most cathartic work since Bert Jansch twenty years earlier. It slipped out on the tiny Belgian label Konexion in a pressing of only five hundred copies, and a greater contrast to [Bert's previous studio album] 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"...

would be hard to imagine."

Track listing

All tracks composed by Bert Jansch; except where indicated

1. "From The Outside" - 1:43
2. "Change The Song" - 3:16
3. "Read All About It" - 3:04
4. "Shout" - 3:18
5. "Ah Sure Wanna Know" - 3:32
6. "Times Is An Old Friend" - 2:53
7. "If You're Thinking 'Bout Me" (Jansch, Portman Smith) - 2:42
8. "Silver Raindrops" - 2:42
9. "Still Love Her Not That She's Gone" - 2:54
10. "Get Out My Life" - 2:35
11. "Sweet Rose" - 3:02
12. "Blues All Around Me" - ?:??
13. "From The Inside" - 1:46

CD reissue tracklist (Hypertension 1993)

1. "Sweet Rose" - 3:02
2. "Blackbird in the Morning" - 3:40
3. "Read All About It" - 3:04
4. "Change the Song" - 3:16
5. "Shout" - 3:18
6. "From The Outside" - 1:43
7. "If You're Thinking 'Bout Me" (Jansch, Portman Smith) - 2:42
8. "Silver Raindrops" - 2:42
9. "Why Me? (Still Love Her Not That She's Gone)" - 2:54
10. "Get Out of My Life" - 2:35
11. "Time Is An Old Friend" - 2:53
12. "River Running" - 3:17
13. "High Emotion" - 3:30
14. "From The Inside" - 1:46