Leather Launderette is the sixteenth 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...

, recorded together with fellow musician Rod Clements

Rod Clements

Rod Clements is a British guitarist and singer-songwriter.-Career:...

. 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 to quit drinking alcohol. 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...

 states in his Bert Jansch biography "Dazzling Stranger", that "There can be no doubt that Bert's creativity, reliability, energy, commitment and quality of performance were all rescued dramatically by the decision to quit boozing".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Bert Jansch; except where indicated

1. "Strolling Down The Highway"
2. "Sweet Rosie"
3. "Brafferton"
4. "Ain't No More Cane
   Ain't No More Cane
   "Ain't No More Cane" is a traditional prison work song of the American south. The title refers to work assigned to prisoners sentenced to hard labor in Texas - to cut sugar cane along the banks of the Brazos River, where many of the state's prison farms were located in the late nineteenth and early...
   
   " (traditional)
5. "Why Me?"
6. "Sundown Station
7. "Knight's Move"
8. "Brownsville"
9. "Bogie's Bonnie Belle"
10. "Leather Launderette"
11. "Been On The Road So Long" (Alex Campbell
    Alex Campbell (singer)
    Alex Campbell was a Scottish folk singer. Described by Colin Harper as a "melancholic, hard-travelling Glaswegian", he was influential in the British folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s and was one of the first folk singers to tour the UK and Europe...
    
    )

Credits

• Bert Jansch - guitar, banjo, vocals
• Rod Clements
  Rod Clements
  Rod Clements is a British guitarist and singer-songwriter.-Career:...
  
   - electric & acoustic guitars, mandolin, bass, lead vocals on 4, 6, 8 and 10
• Marty Craggs - backing vocals