Bert Jansch - Santa Barbara Honeymoon (1975) (2009 Remaster + Bonus)
Santa Barbara Honeymoon is the tenth album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in 1975. The three 70's Charisma albums L.A. Turnaround, Santa Barbara Honeymoon and A Rare Conundrum had been out of print for decades and never been available on CD before.
In June 2009 these three albums were released by Virgin Records (EMI). Bert supervised the re-mastering himself as well as hand-picked the bonus material. The CD includes newly discovered material from the album sessions as well as live recordings from the Montreux Jazz Festival 4 July 1975, all of them previously unreleased.
Release Info
Released: June 2009 Label: Virgin Records (EMI) Catalog#: 5099996486429 Playing Time: 59 minutes Remastering: Peter Mew and Bert Jansch
Personnel
Bert Jansch (guitar/vocal) Jim Baker (guitar) Jay Lacy (electric guitar) Bill Smith (keyboards) David Barry (keyboards) George Seymour (synth) Robert Greenidge (steel drum) Don Whaley (bass) Ernie McDaniels (bass) David Hungate (bass) Danny Lane (drums) Tris Imboden (drums) +brass and backing vocals
Tracklisting
1. Love Anew 2. Mary and Joseph 3. Be My Friend 4. Baby Blue 5. Dance Lady Dance 6. You Are My Sunshine 7. Lons And Gone 8. Blues Run The Game 9. Build Another Band 10. When The Teardrops Fell 11. Dynamite 12. Buckrabbit 13. Build Another Band [Alternate Version] - (previously unreleased) 14. When The Teardrops Fall - (previously unreleased, live) 15. Lady Nothing - (previously unreleased, live) 16. Dance Lady Dance - (previously unreleased, live) 17. Angie - (previously unreleased, live) 18. One For Jo - (previously unreleased, live)
Review by Daniel S. Crommie on amazon.com, Rating: 5/5 Stars Under-rated, beautifully remastered and expanded
I bought this as an LP back in the early eighties - used, as it was difficult to find a new copy to procure at the time, and I have to say I was underwhelmed by the material and the band he chose to accompany him on this third Charisma Records excursion. With 30 years passed I can safely say I was quite wrong in my judgement of this fine, fine album. Sure, there are some unexpected production touches that seemed jarring at the time: spacey synth on Mary and Joseph, steel drums and horns, etc. Now I can see these were very appropriate and complemented the arrangements with good result. I used to cringe at You are My Sunshine - now I find it to be a really emotionally touching song with some fine backing vocals from the other musicians. Of course Blues Run the Game is also a marvelous song by one of his favorite songwriters, the late Jackson C. Frank - and a song he would later revisit on his live CD Downunder. The remastering is splendid on all the Charisma releases, but the real bonuses are the live tracks recorded in 1975 at Montreaux, especially the live version of When the Teardrops Fell which I personally prefer over the studio version from the album proper. I am very pleased that I had a chance to re-evaluate this recording, especially considering my early reluctance to pick it up when I saw it was going to be made available again.
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