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Acoustic Routes
Album available as:- Initially
commissioned by the BBC Scotland as a forty minute regional program, the
few-waiving involvement of Billy Connolly as the films anchor man- linking
the performances and ad-libbing Bert's history with humour, affection
and the communal pride that comes with reliving one's own part of movement
- allowed for the project's extension to seventy minutes and a network
screening. The budget had been desperately small, but the end result had
the sheen of class. In one sequence, filmed at 365 High Street Edinburgh,
the old Howff premises, Bert was reunited with Archie Fisher, Hamish Imlach
and Ann Briggs; in an other he was teamed up with Al Stewart and Wizz
Jones for a trawl around the old haunts in Soho; Davy Graham (refusing
to perform with his old rival) is seen playing solo and quaffing cappuccinos
at the Troubadour, Ralph McTell explains the music's fragility, Peter
Kirtley attests to Bert's influences and Martin Carthy revisits "Scarborough
Fair" under the indignity of a bogus title (neatly avoiding Paul
Simons copyright); Bert play's "Heatbreak Hotel" one more time
with Albert Lee, in California, and meets his original inspiration Brownie
McGhee for the first time in nearly thirty years. Brownie had not the
first idea who Bert was but he was happy to entertain anyone who had known
the blues. - Source: Dazzling Stranger Bert Jansch And The British Folk & Blues Revival By Collin Harper.
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