For guitar students everywhere, another helping of the jim-dandy Mr Jansch.
Bert Jansch: Black Waterside
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A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
For guitar students everywhere, another helping of the jim-dandy Mr Jansch.
That is essential Bert Jansch, and was the first tune I heard by him. I came to know it from being a Led Zeppelin fan. Their tune “Black Mountain Side” is very similar, and it’s an early example of Led Zep’s “borrowing” other people’s music.
The story here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_by_Blackwaterside#:~:text=Led%20Zeppelin%20%27s%20song%20%22%20Black%20Mountain%20Side,what%20he%20thought%20was%20Jansch%27s%20version%20of%20%22Blackwaterside%22.
JP on the Julie Felix show. Terrible video quality, sorry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M10dZwdtw4s