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Featuring an expanded five-piece lineup with Mary Heney on guitar/vocals and Peter Fryer on viola

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" Frank's nimble acoustic guitar and passionate howls are all that is needed to power such authentic songwriting

Bert Jansch - Birthday Blues LP 12-inches is a marvel of hot-wiredBert Jansch's freewheeling fifth album, Birthday Blues, occupies a unique place in his solo discography. Released in 1969, the same year Basket of Light propelled Pentangle into the UK pop charts, Birthday Blues almost sounds like a Pentangle LP missing John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee. Backed up by bandmates Danny Thompson and Terry Cox, Jansch neither holds back his characteristic moodiness nor takes himself too seriously. What's more, Jansch is in