0:00:03 > 0:00:05The musical impact was immediate
0:00:05 > 0:00:08when we became aware of the guy called Bert Jansch.
0:00:08 > 0:00:13The dexterity and where he's coming from, as a stylist
0:00:13 > 0:00:17and as an individual, was very engaging for me.
0:00:19 > 0:00:22# Sitting behind the front wheel
0:00:22 > 0:00:26# Got my woman beside me too...#
0:00:26 > 0:00:29He had that kind of cool. He was just cool.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31Didn't have to try.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33Enviable, really.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36# I don't mind the drizzle and rain...#
0:00:36 > 0:00:39Chris said to me, "I'm going to introduce you to Bert Jansch
0:00:39 > 0:00:41"and you'll fall in love with him, cos all the girls do."
0:00:41 > 0:00:44# Baby, we're going home. #
0:00:44 > 0:00:48He had a poetic intensity and he was dark and mysterious.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51He didn't need to bang a drum about what he did.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54It was all there under his fingers, you know.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01At the end of the 1950s there was no fingerstyle guitar,
0:01:01 > 0:01:03hardly, in Britain.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07Ten years later Martin Carthy, Davy Graham, Bert Jansch,
0:01:07 > 0:01:11they had changed the world of acoustic guitar.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15# Just don't bother me. #
0:01:15 > 0:01:20He was this painfully shy, really sweet natured bloke and he started
0:01:20 > 0:01:24to play and I've never seen anybody attack the guitar the way he did it.
0:01:24 > 0:01:29He was really...grrrr, growling while he played sometimes.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33# Day-da-dam-da-doo-dum... #
0:01:40 > 0:01:43It's like a rite of passage a guitar player should know about,
0:01:43 > 0:01:44a bit of knowledge.
0:01:44 > 0:01:48You know, you need to learn how to do this and how to do that
0:01:48 > 0:01:52and at some point you're going to have to deal with Bert Jansch.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54APPLAUSE
0:02:01 > 0:02:04I'm glad that we're doing it here at the Festival Hall cos I think
0:02:04 > 0:02:06Bert liked being here.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10Two years ago, we played here with Bert and the original band.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12The first big gig was at Festival Hall
0:02:12 > 0:02:15and the last big gig was the Festival Hall.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20I talked to Danny Thompson and he said,
0:02:20 > 0:02:22"There's only one thing that I hate about this."
0:02:22 > 0:02:26He said, "It didn't happen when Bert was alive, so he could join in."
0:02:28 > 0:02:30I think Bert would have enjoyed it.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34He was always quite touched when people played his songs.
0:02:34 > 0:02:35I hadn't met Bernard before,
0:02:35 > 0:02:38His guitar strap's not quite as long as some of the guys I've worked with
0:02:38 > 0:02:43but he's got it right.
0:02:43 > 0:02:48I'm just going to, sort of, think, "Hey, Bert, this is for you."
0:02:48 > 0:02:51We'll all be nervy but that's OK too.
0:02:51 > 0:02:53Bert used to speed up when he got nervous.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:06:21 > 0:06:27I used to sing just in an amateur way with a 12 string player
0:06:27 > 0:06:29called Chris Ayliff
0:06:29 > 0:06:33and we were running a folk club in South London and John Renbourn
0:06:33 > 0:06:36and Bert used to come down and play and they were our highest
0:06:36 > 0:06:40paying artists, eight pounds, was an awful lot in those days.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42But I did meet Bert, and he went,
0:06:42 > 0:06:44"Do you want to come and have a cup of tea, love?"
0:06:44 > 0:06:46I went, "Oh, all right."
0:06:46 > 0:06:47That was it, really.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49John said to me,
0:06:49 > 0:06:51"We're forming a band and you're going to be the singer."
0:06:51 > 0:06:55# And in the place your time was waste
0:06:55 > 0:07:00# Will spread all over with rue
0:07:01 > 0:07:06# Will spread all over with rue. #
0:07:06 > 0:07:09When we first started, people gave us an awful lot of stick
0:07:09 > 0:07:14because we had bass and drums from the jazz world but we all loved jazz
0:07:14 > 0:07:17but everybody used to say, "We've never heard anything like it!"
0:07:17 > 0:07:20And I suppose, really, we played what we wanted to play.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23And we were lucky that a lot of people started to like it
0:07:23 > 0:07:24and bought the albums.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Within that year, when we first started,
0:07:26 > 0:07:28we were playing the Festival Hall.
0:07:40 > 0:07:45# I've got a feeling
0:07:45 > 0:07:49# Concerning you
0:07:51 > 0:07:57# You know, I've got a feeling
0:07:57 > 0:08:02# Concerning you
0:08:02 > 0:08:08# Concerning the things
0:08:08 > 0:08:10# That you do
0:08:15 > 0:08:20# I ain't dreaming
0:08:20 > 0:08:25# When I think of you
0:08:26 > 0:08:31# I ain't dreaming
0:08:31 > 0:08:37# When I think of you
0:08:37 > 0:08:41# When I think of
0:08:41 > 0:08:46# What we're gonna do
0:08:50 > 0:08:55# Ooooh
0:08:56 > 0:09:01# Ooooh
0:09:01 > 0:09:07# Ahhh-oh-oh-ooooh
0:09:07 > 0:09:11# Ooooh
0:09:13 > 0:09:18# Ahhhh
0:09:18 > 0:09:21# Oooh-ooh-ooh-oooh
0:10:01 > 0:10:04SAXOPHONE SOLO
0:10:33 > 0:10:38# I've got a feeling
0:10:39 > 0:10:43# Concerning you
0:10:45 > 0:10:49# You know, I got a feeling
0:10:51 > 0:10:55# Concerning you
0:10:57 > 0:11:03# Concerning the things
0:11:03 > 0:11:09# That you do. #
0:11:17 > 0:11:19APPLAUSE
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Thank you.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Spencer Cousins, Jonathan Wolf,
0:11:22 > 0:11:25Jerry Conway and Gary Foot, thank you.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51The gentleman behind me on the wall is Jackson C Frank.
0:11:51 > 0:11:56He made one record, which was produced by Paul Simon, over here.
0:11:58 > 0:12:02And Bert was, pretty much, obsessed with that record.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05Jackson C Frank had a horrible life
0:12:05 > 0:12:09and a lot of people wrote songs which sound a bit like this
0:12:09 > 0:12:14but they were really romantic songs about the concept of suffering.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18Jackson C Frank wasn't writing about the concept of suffering,
0:12:18 > 0:12:19he was suffering.
0:12:19 > 0:12:25Which, I think, makes this song...special.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47# Catch a boat to England, baby
0:12:47 > 0:12:49# Maybe to Spain
0:12:50 > 0:12:52# Wherever I have gone
0:12:52 > 0:12:55# Wherever I've been and gone
0:12:55 > 0:12:57# Wherever I have gone
0:12:57 > 0:13:01# The blues are all the same
0:13:05 > 0:13:07# Send down for whisky, baby
0:13:07 > 0:13:09# Send down for gin
0:13:11 > 0:13:13# Me and room service, honey
0:13:13 > 0:13:15# Me and room service, babe
0:13:15 > 0:13:17# Me and room service
0:13:17 > 0:13:20# We'll be living a life of sin
0:13:25 > 0:13:27# Try another city, honey
0:13:27 > 0:13:30# Try another town
0:13:30 > 0:13:33# Wherever I have gone
0:13:33 > 0:13:35# Wherever I've been and gone
0:13:35 > 0:13:37# Wherever I have gone
0:13:37 > 0:13:41# The blues, they followed me down
0:14:05 > 0:14:07# When I'm not drinking, Mama
0:14:07 > 0:14:09# You are on my mind
0:14:10 > 0:14:12# When I'm not drinking, Mama
0:14:12 > 0:14:15# When I'm not sleeping, baby
0:14:15 > 0:14:17# When I'm not drinking
0:14:17 > 0:14:21# You know you'll find me crying
0:14:25 > 0:14:26# Maybe tomorrow, honey
0:14:26 > 0:14:30# Somewhere down the line
0:14:30 > 0:14:32# I'll wake up older, Mama
0:14:32 > 0:14:35# Oh, so much older, child
0:14:35 > 0:14:37# I'll wake up older
0:14:37 > 0:14:41# And I'll soon quit all my trying
0:14:44 > 0:14:46# You know living's just a gamble, honey
0:14:46 > 0:14:49# Loving's just the same
0:14:49 > 0:14:52# Wherever I have gone
0:14:52 > 0:14:54# Wherever I played them cards
0:14:54 > 0:14:56# Wherever I've thrown them dice
0:14:56 > 0:15:00# The blues, they run the game
0:15:04 > 0:15:06# Catch a boat to England, baby
0:15:06 > 0:15:08# Maybe to Spain
0:15:09 > 0:15:12# Wherever I have gone
0:15:12 > 0:15:14# Wherever I've been and gone
0:15:14 > 0:15:16# Wherever I have gone
0:15:16 > 0:15:22# The blues, they run the game. #
0:15:38 > 0:15:41APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:15:50 > 0:15:52Thank you very much.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56I had some very enlightened teachers in school
0:15:56 > 0:16:00and they used to take us on school trips to see Pentangle.
0:16:00 > 0:16:01Now, how cool is that?!
0:16:01 > 0:16:03LAUGHTER
0:16:03 > 0:16:05And there was one particular gentleman, I have to say,
0:16:05 > 0:16:11who I will always remember just being completely jaw-dropped by him.
0:16:11 > 0:16:15I thought he was utterly astonishing and I still think he is.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17Would you please welcome to the stage
0:16:17 > 0:16:18Danny Thompson, ladies and gentlemen?
0:16:18 > 0:16:21APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:16:33 > 0:16:35We're going to do you a song, actually, my brother,
0:16:35 > 0:16:37who is 12 years older than me...
0:16:37 > 0:16:42My brother, Geoff, he used to fill the house with 78s.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46This was in the late '50s and so I got to hear
0:16:46 > 0:16:51all kinds of funky stuff and this was on a record and...
0:16:54 > 0:16:55..he did a nice version of it.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03One, two, three, four...
0:17:28 > 0:17:31# Now, since my baby left me
0:17:31 > 0:17:35# I found a new place to dwell
0:17:35 > 0:17:38# It's down the corner of Lonely Street
0:17:38 > 0:17:40# At Heartbreak Hotel
0:17:40 > 0:17:43# You make me so lonely, baby
0:17:44 > 0:17:47# You make me so lonely, baby
0:17:47 > 0:17:51# Make me so lonely I could die
0:17:55 > 0:17:58# Well, you know, it's always crowded
0:17:58 > 0:18:01# But you sure can find some room
0:18:01 > 0:18:04# Where broken-hearted lovers
0:18:04 > 0:18:06# Do just cry away their gloom
0:18:06 > 0:18:10# You made me so lonely, baby
0:18:11 > 0:18:14# You made me so lonely, baby
0:18:14 > 0:18:17# You made me so lonely I could die
0:18:48 > 0:18:51# Well, the bellhop's tears keep flowin'
0:18:51 > 0:18:54# And the desk clerk's dressed in black
0:18:54 > 0:18:57# They've been so long on Lonely Street
0:18:57 > 0:18:59# They ain't never coming back
0:18:59 > 0:19:02# I feel so lonely, baby
0:19:04 > 0:19:07# I get so lonely, baby
0:19:07 > 0:19:11# I get so lonely I could die
0:19:15 > 0:19:18# So, now if your baby leaves you
0:19:18 > 0:19:21# And you've got a tale to tell
0:19:21 > 0:19:25# You just take a little walk down Lonely Street
0:19:25 > 0:19:27# To Heartbreak Hotel
0:19:27 > 0:19:29# You made me so lonely, baby
0:19:31 > 0:19:34# You made me so lonely, baby
0:19:34 > 0:19:38# Made me so lonely I could die
0:19:55 > 0:19:57# Lonely, baby
0:19:57 > 0:20:01# I get so lonely, baby
0:20:01 > 0:20:04# I get so lonely I could die. #
0:20:10 > 0:20:11Danny Thompson.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:20:19 > 0:20:21The Cousins folk club in Greek Street.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Les Cousins, "lay coozan".
0:20:23 > 0:20:25No-one really knew how to pronounce it.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27We always thought it was "Les Cousin".
0:20:27 > 0:20:29I was looking for Les for years.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Who was this bloke who owned it?
0:20:33 > 0:20:37The first time I went down to Cousins was with John Renbourn
0:20:37 > 0:20:40and we used to play there quite a lot, really.
0:20:41 > 0:20:45It seemed to concentrate mostly on the young generation of songwriters,
0:20:45 > 0:20:50Nick Drake, Johnny Martyn, Bert, John Renbourn, Roy Harper.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53The Cousins was a place for guitar players.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56I remember Bert didn't own a guitar at one point.
0:20:56 > 0:21:00He had a thumb pick made out of a spoon, a silver teaspoon,
0:21:00 > 0:21:03which he'd chopped the handle off and bent it round
0:21:03 > 0:21:05and he was playing that.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07His attack was really savage.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10Just a young guy sitting in the corner in a combat jacket,
0:21:10 > 0:21:13didn't look anything special and of course,
0:21:13 > 0:21:16when he got up on stage, he just completely blew everyone away.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19Saw lots of people there. And the all-nighters,
0:21:19 > 0:21:22people used to roll up in the corner with their sleeping bags.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24# It's daybreak
0:21:24 > 0:21:27# The all-nighters faded to a close
0:21:27 > 0:21:31# The last of the folk rises and goes... #
0:21:31 > 0:21:35I saw Bert one night at Les Cousins and we all went back to Bert's flat.
0:21:35 > 0:21:41I just sat at his feet and tried to work out what he was doing.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44It was clear that he was the guy to watch.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48And so I learned a lot from Bert.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51He was a great, willing teacher
0:21:51 > 0:21:55and I started writing songs about him.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59This one came.
0:21:59 > 0:22:03MUSIC: House Of Jansch by Donovan
0:22:03 > 0:22:06# Girl ain't nothing but a willow tree
0:22:07 > 0:22:11# Swaying in a summer breeze
0:22:11 > 0:22:15# You'll never change what has to be
0:22:16 > 0:22:20# Girl ain't nothing but a willow tree
0:22:27 > 0:22:32# Sometimes I don't know what I said till I did
0:22:32 > 0:22:36# I wanna be the father of your kid
0:22:36 > 0:22:40# Dragonfly, he sleeps till dawn
0:22:41 > 0:22:45# I knew I'd be here when love has gone
0:22:52 > 0:22:57# Crystal ball is what I wish for you
0:22:57 > 0:23:00# Get it straight, I love the both of you
0:23:00 > 0:23:05# Summer's going through a cold turkey
0:23:06 > 0:23:09# Girl ain't nothing but a willow tree
0:23:17 > 0:23:22# I give your baby a contact high
0:23:22 > 0:23:26# I love another, is what I sigh
0:23:26 > 0:23:29# Looks like rain, I do declare
0:23:31 > 0:23:35# Your baby wants to take my chocolate eclair
0:23:51 > 0:23:53# I couldn't cry
0:23:53 > 0:23:56# I could not laugh
0:23:56 > 0:24:00# Incident about a silken scarf
0:24:00 > 0:24:04# I know what a jealous trip can be
0:24:05 > 0:24:09# Girl ain't nothing but a willow tree
0:24:12 > 0:24:16# Girl ain't nothing but a willow tree
0:24:20 > 0:24:23# Wait for me
0:24:25 > 0:24:28# Willow tree. #
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Thank you. Bert Jansch.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39APPLAUSE
0:24:48 > 0:24:52Now the journey continues with the next artist. I'll see you later.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54Thank you.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:25:13 > 0:25:17# To be exposed
0:25:18 > 0:25:23# In all my strife
0:25:25 > 0:25:29# You gaze upon
0:25:31 > 0:25:35# My troubled life
0:25:38 > 0:25:43# But it
0:25:43 > 0:25:46# Don't bother me
0:25:48 > 0:25:52# What you see
0:26:00 > 0:26:06# You take my name
0:26:06 > 0:26:11# And you hang it high
0:26:12 > 0:26:18# You paint my picture
0:26:18 > 0:26:23# With coloured lies
0:26:25 > 0:26:30# But it
0:26:30 > 0:26:34# Don't bother me
0:26:35 > 0:26:39# What you do
0:26:47 > 0:26:52# You twist my words
0:26:52 > 0:26:58# Like plaited reeds
0:26:58 > 0:27:04# To mark your gain
0:27:04 > 0:27:09# And help your needs
0:27:09 > 0:27:15# Oh, but it
0:27:15 > 0:27:20# Don't bother me
0:27:20 > 0:27:27# What you say
0:27:32 > 0:27:38# When the truth is told
0:27:38 > 0:27:43# Of who I am
0:27:43 > 0:27:49# Shall break the silence
0:27:49 > 0:27:55# Of waters calm
0:27:55 > 0:28:03# Oh, but it just don't bother me
0:28:05 > 0:28:12# Who I am
0:28:18 > 0:28:26# But if I was a beggar boy
0:28:29 > 0:28:37# I'd sing of riches I could enjoy
0:28:41 > 0:28:49# Oh, but...it don't bother me
0:28:53 > 0:28:55# What they are
0:29:04 > 0:29:10# I'm thinking now
0:29:10 > 0:29:14# I'd rather hide
0:29:16 > 0:29:21# Or turn my back
0:29:22 > 0:29:26# And stand aside
0:29:28 > 0:29:36# But it...don't bother me
0:29:39 > 0:29:47# What I do. #
0:29:48 > 0:29:51CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:29:54 > 0:29:57Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning with Paul and Lisa.
0:29:57 > 0:29:59I used to play that with Bert a lot.
0:29:59 > 0:30:02Cos he was so used to playing on his own, when anyone else was there
0:30:02 > 0:30:05it was suddenly, "Oh, what's going on?"
0:30:05 > 0:30:07With Lisa singing it, it sounds beautiful.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10And me and Paul were trying to get her to be out of time,
0:30:10 > 0:30:12cos that's how it would have been with Bert.
0:30:12 > 0:30:13"Do you think you could just...?
0:30:13 > 0:30:17"If you edge ahead a little bit." Cos that's how it was with Bert.
0:30:24 > 0:30:26APPLAUSE
0:30:31 > 0:30:37# As fresh as a sweet Sunday morning
0:30:37 > 0:30:45# Like a high stepping pony strutting and prancing
0:30:45 > 0:30:49# Ah, she's so full of life
0:30:49 > 0:30:55# Sparkling with tiny red roses
0:31:06 > 0:31:12# Let there be music to please her
0:31:12 > 0:31:20# Let it be sunbright to light up her day
0:31:20 > 0:31:25# Let the moon light her night
0:31:25 > 0:31:31# Fill her sweet body with sleepiness
0:31:42 > 0:31:48# And if I were a small bird so tiny
0:31:48 > 0:31:55# I'd climb in her hair now just to be near her
0:31:57 > 0:32:00# And to hear her sweet voice
0:32:00 > 0:32:06# And feel her sweet body beside me
0:32:51 > 0:32:58# And if I were a high lord with riches
0:32:58 > 0:33:05# I'd clothe her in satin from India's far highlands
0:33:05 > 0:33:10# And I'd shoe her in gold
0:33:10 > 0:33:16# And invite her to sit at my table
0:33:27 > 0:33:33# So step out young lady dancing
0:33:33 > 0:33:41# To the sound of sweet music so gaily come singing
0:33:41 > 0:33:45# For your beauty so rare
0:33:45 > 0:33:51# Is as fresh as a sweet Sunday morning. #
0:34:19 > 0:34:21CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:34:24 > 0:34:27The manager that we had in the late-'60s, early-'70s, Jo Lustig,
0:34:27 > 0:34:31he said we were the quietest band on stage but the loudest off.
0:34:31 > 0:34:33SHE LAUGHS He was probably right.
0:34:33 > 0:34:35# Well, if hosen and shoon
0:34:35 > 0:34:39# Thou ne'er gav'st nane
0:34:39 > 0:34:45# Any nighte and alle... #
0:34:45 > 0:34:47And then, of course, there were tours of America.
0:34:47 > 0:34:49It was really funny, because we all went
0:34:49 > 0:34:52tweedy and very British, you know.
0:34:52 > 0:34:56And I came back looking like Pocahontas...
0:34:56 > 0:34:58with buckskin dresses and stuff.
0:34:58 > 0:35:01It turned our heads, really, going to America.
0:35:01 > 0:35:03We were just like children in a sweet shop, you know.
0:35:03 > 0:35:06All those lovely memories.
0:35:13 > 0:35:18# Fair thee well, little lady
0:35:18 > 0:35:24# Train's a-carrying me
0:35:24 > 0:35:30# One, two, three and the four thousand miles
0:35:30 > 0:35:33# Miles from you
0:35:37 > 0:35:44# Oh, I tried my best to be your man
0:35:45 > 0:35:52# Can you see, can you feel, I'm burning into myself
0:35:52 > 0:35:55# Don't you understand? #
0:36:41 > 0:36:43APPLAUSE
0:36:43 > 0:36:45CHEERING
0:36:48 > 0:36:50Do you remember that, Dan?
0:36:50 > 0:36:54- Yeah, we had some fun on the road in those days.- We did.
0:36:54 > 0:36:58Yeah. So it was real. Yeah, it was a joyful experience.
0:36:58 > 0:37:03We were all mates together playing darts and socialising together.
0:37:03 > 0:37:07And it wasn't at all kind of record business and publishing.
0:37:07 > 0:37:09We just did it for the music.
0:37:09 > 0:37:13- I think that says it all, we were all together. It was lovely.- Great.
0:37:13 > 0:37:15- Sorry about the Speedos. - LAUGHTER
0:37:22 > 0:37:25- That's when I could wear 'em. - LAUGHTER
0:37:48 > 0:37:55# I once thought that I did know all about it
0:37:57 > 0:38:05# The rain falls, the wind blows and the sun shines
0:38:07 > 0:38:15# Oh, don't you know that your creator is a-running out of ideas?
0:38:20 > 0:38:28# I know that I might die of poison
0:38:31 > 0:38:38# Invisible hanging there in the sunlight
0:38:40 > 0:38:48# Oh, don't you know that your creator is a-running out of ideas?
0:39:23 > 0:39:31# If I was you, I'd be friendly to your neighbour
0:39:34 > 0:39:41# Be glad that he don't want to be your enemy
0:39:43 > 0:39:51# Oh, don't you know that your creator is a-running out of ideas? #
0:40:09 > 0:40:12CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:40:12 > 0:40:14Thank you very much. Thank you.
0:40:14 > 0:40:16Danny, Terry, Bernard Butler.
0:40:16 > 0:40:18APPLAUSE
0:40:28 > 0:40:33I think it's fair to say that there are a lot of friends of Bert Jansch
0:40:33 > 0:40:35involved in this show this evening.
0:40:35 > 0:40:38I'd like to introduce somebody who is on his second album, I believe.
0:40:38 > 0:40:42Would you please welcome the stage Beverley Martyn and her band?
0:40:42 > 0:40:44APPLAUSE
0:40:53 > 0:40:54Hi.
0:41:34 > 0:41:41# Keeps on raining, levee's gonna break
0:41:43 > 0:41:50# Keeps on raining, levee's gonna break
0:41:50 > 0:41:58# And all you people won't have nowhere to stay
0:41:58 > 0:42:05# Oh, last night, I stood on the levee and moaned
0:42:07 > 0:42:13# Oh, last night I stood on the levee and moaned
0:42:14 > 0:42:21# Thinking about my baby and my happy home
0:42:22 > 0:42:25# Rain won't help you
0:42:25 > 0:42:30# Crying won't do you no good
0:42:30 > 0:42:33# Rain won't help you
0:42:33 > 0:42:37# Crying won't do no good
0:42:37 > 0:42:45# When the levee breaks, man, you got to move
0:43:10 > 0:43:17# Worked on the levee, momma, both night and day
0:43:17 > 0:43:21# Worked on the levee, momma
0:43:21 > 0:43:24# Both night and day
0:43:24 > 0:43:32# I was a-working so hard just to keep the water away
0:43:56 > 0:44:04# Now, it's a mean old levee cause me to weep and moan
0:44:05 > 0:44:12# Mean old levee cause me to weep and moan
0:44:12 > 0:44:19# Cause me to leave my baby and my happy home
0:44:19 > 0:44:27# And if it keeps on raining the levee's gonna break
0:44:29 > 0:44:35# Keeps on raining, levee's gonna break
0:44:35 > 0:44:43# And all you people won't have nowhere to stay. #
0:45:34 > 0:45:37CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:45:41 > 0:45:45I can't tell you...how much Bert meant to me.
0:45:45 > 0:45:48My favourite thing that he ever did was called Blackwaterside.
0:45:48 > 0:45:52And he used to play this thing for me and I actually cried,
0:45:52 > 0:45:55I couldn't believe it. You know, I was going, "Bert!"
0:45:59 > 0:46:04Bert's grounding in folk music was very strong. Very, very strong.
0:46:04 > 0:46:07I think you can hear in the constructions of his songs as well.
0:46:07 > 0:46:10When he played traditional songs,
0:46:10 > 0:46:14he let the words dictate where the guitar should go.
0:46:14 > 0:46:17That was exactly the right thing to do.
0:46:17 > 0:46:19But he was there first.
0:46:19 > 0:46:23# One morning fair, I took the air
0:46:23 > 0:46:28# Down on Blackwaterside... #
0:46:28 > 0:46:29He had a relationship with this
0:46:29 > 0:46:32lovely English singer called Annie Briggs
0:46:32 > 0:46:34and he learned a few songs from her.
0:46:34 > 0:46:37He learned Jack Orion and he learned Blackwaterside from her.
0:46:37 > 0:46:41He created something pretty wonderful out of what had been
0:46:41 > 0:46:44a song that had been around for 300-400 years.
0:46:44 > 0:46:46And he's come up with this exquisite arrangement,
0:46:46 > 0:46:49much envied, much copied.
0:46:49 > 0:46:51Much copied.
0:46:51 > 0:46:54And still a benchmark for people that want to show
0:46:54 > 0:46:56they can play guitar and like folk music.
0:47:00 > 0:47:01The song I want to do...
0:47:01 > 0:47:04I've called it The Kiss In The Rain
0:47:04 > 0:47:09to suggest something that is a bit transitory or doesn't really last.
0:47:09 > 0:47:14And it's a mythologizing of the handing over of Blackwaterside
0:47:14 > 0:47:16by Ann to Bert.
0:47:26 > 0:47:31# In my mind I see Annie and Bert running free
0:47:31 > 0:47:36# Over the hills but inside of the sea
0:47:36 > 0:47:43# And there's no map between them, just music their guide
0:47:43 > 0:47:46# And the moon on dark water
0:47:46 > 0:47:50# Like a road they could ride
0:47:54 > 0:48:00# Now one day they wrote a new page in their lives
0:48:00 > 0:48:06# Written on wings of sea birds as they dived
0:48:06 > 0:48:11# Swooping down to the sea, marked the turn of the tide
0:48:11 > 0:48:16# And he sang him the song
0:48:17 > 0:48:20# She called Blackwaterside
0:48:21 > 0:48:24# Do do do do do do
0:48:24 > 0:48:27# Do do do do do do
0:48:27 > 0:48:28# Ah da day
0:48:28 > 0:48:30# Da-da day
0:48:31 > 0:48:36# In unfettered freedom, life coursed through their veins
0:48:36 > 0:48:42# A promise exchanged for a kiss in the rain
0:48:42 > 0:48:48# To return her sweet favour if she would decide
0:48:48 > 0:48:51# To teach him the song
0:48:51 > 0:48:54# She called Blackwaterside
0:48:57 > 0:49:02# She sang it again and he took his guitar
0:49:02 > 0:49:08# And he sank by the rocks and he worked a long hour
0:49:08 > 0:49:14# Till he fitted the tune she'd agreed to provide
0:49:14 > 0:49:17# To the words of the song
0:49:17 > 0:49:20# She called Blackwaterside
0:49:33 > 0:49:38# Now when it was finished and fashioned and true
0:49:38 > 0:49:43# Becoming the bond of this oneness of two
0:49:43 > 0:49:49# For the words and the music you cannot divide
0:49:49 > 0:49:53# They're both parts of the song
0:49:53 > 0:49:57# They call Blackwaterside
0:50:22 > 0:50:27# Now the story it told would be much like their own
0:50:27 > 0:50:32# Except for deception, of which there was none
0:50:32 > 0:50:38# There was no promise broken, no tears to be dried
0:50:38 > 0:50:43# Just honey and birdsong
0:50:43 > 0:50:46# Was Blackwaterside
0:50:47 > 0:50:49# Do do do do do, do
0:50:49 > 0:50:52# Do do do do do do
0:50:52 > 0:50:54# Ah da da da
0:50:54 > 0:50:57# Deedle day
0:50:57 > 0:50:59# Do do do do
0:50:59 > 0:51:02# Do do do do do do
0:51:02 > 0:51:05# Da da da da da da
0:51:09 > 0:51:14# She asked him to play it to her again
0:51:14 > 0:51:19# For fear it might fade, like a kiss in the rain
0:51:21 > 0:51:27# But the notes on his guitar did ripple and glide
0:51:27 > 0:51:30# They sparkled like moonlight
0:51:30 > 0:51:34# On Blackwaterside
0:51:35 > 0:51:38# Do do da da
0:51:38 > 0:51:40# La la la la la
0:51:40 > 0:51:43# Da da da da, da da
0:51:44 > 0:51:49# Oh, they sparkle like moonlight
0:51:49 > 0:51:55# On Blackwaterside. #
0:52:00 > 0:52:03APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:52:09 > 0:52:14Thanks ever so much. Listen, it's my very great pleasure and privilege
0:52:14 > 0:52:18to introduce Martin Carthy and Lisa Knapp.
0:52:18 > 0:52:21APPLAUSE
0:52:33 > 0:52:36This is that Blackwaterside.
0:52:38 > 0:52:40APPLAUSE
0:52:42 > 0:52:45I didn't really make any kind of an effort to play it like Bert,
0:52:45 > 0:52:47I thought it'd be rather silly.
0:52:48 > 0:52:50Cos nobody could play it like him.
0:53:11 > 0:53:15# One morning fair
0:53:15 > 0:53:20# To take the air
0:53:22 > 0:53:29# Down by Blackwaterside
0:53:30 > 0:53:35# 'Twas in gazing all
0:53:35 > 0:53:39# All around me
0:53:40 > 0:53:48# 'Twas the Irish lad I spied
0:53:50 > 0:53:58# And all for the first part of the night
0:53:59 > 0:54:05# We lay in sport and play
0:54:06 > 0:54:12# Then this young man he arose
0:54:13 > 0:54:17# And he's put on his clothes
0:54:17 > 0:54:24# He says fare you well today
0:54:25 > 0:54:33# Well that's not the promise you gave to me
0:54:33 > 0:54:39# When first you lay on my bed
0:54:39 > 0:54:46# You could make me believe
0:54:46 > 0:54:50# With your lying tongue
0:54:50 > 0:54:56# That the sun rose in the West
0:54:59 > 0:55:03# Then go home, go home
0:55:03 > 0:55:08# To your father's garden
0:55:08 > 0:55:16# You go home and weep your fill
0:55:16 > 0:55:21# And you think on your own
0:55:21 > 0:55:25# Misfortune
0:55:26 > 0:55:34# That you've brought with your want and will
0:55:34 > 0:55:38# One morning fair
0:55:38 > 0:55:42# For to take the air
0:55:42 > 0:55:49# Down by Blackwaterside
0:55:49 > 0:55:54# 'Twas in gazing all
0:55:56 > 0:56:00# All around me
0:56:01 > 0:56:09# Was the Irish lad I spied. #
0:56:11 > 0:56:16APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:56:36 > 0:56:38Right.
0:56:58 > 0:57:00# I'm walkin' down a track
0:57:00 > 0:57:04# I got tears in my eyes
0:57:04 > 0:57:08# Tryin' to read a letter from my home
0:57:09 > 0:57:12# And if that train keep running right
0:57:12 > 0:57:16# I'll be home tomorrow night
0:57:17 > 0:57:21# Cos I'm 900 miles from my home
0:57:23 > 0:57:27# And I hate to hear that lonesome whistle blow
0:57:31 > 0:57:34# And I'll pawn you my watch
0:57:34 > 0:57:38# And I'll pawn you my chain
0:57:38 > 0:57:41# I'll pawn you my gold diamond ring
0:57:43 > 0:57:46# And if that train keep running right
0:57:46 > 0:57:49# I'll be home tomorrow night
0:57:51 > 0:57:56# Cos I'm 900 miles from my home
0:57:57 > 0:58:01# I hate to hear that lonesome whistle blow
0:58:41 > 0:58:43# That train I ride on
0:58:43 > 0:58:47# It's 100 coaches long
0:58:47 > 0:58:51# And the whistle blow a million miles
0:58:52 > 0:58:55# And if that train keep running right
0:58:55 > 0:58:58# I'll be home tomorrow night
0:58:59 > 0:59:05# Cos I'm 900 miles from my home
0:59:06 > 0:59:10# I hate to hear that lonesome whistle blow
0:59:14 > 0:59:19# Cos I'm 900 miles from my home
0:59:21 > 0:59:24# I hate to hear that lonesome whistle blow. #
1:00:42 > 1:00:44APPLAUSE
1:00:47 > 1:00:53What Bert had was a real sense of expression and looseness...
1:00:54 > 1:00:55..and darkness.
1:00:55 > 1:00:59What's that? That's rock 'n' roll. It's the blues, you know.
1:00:59 > 1:01:03So it makes perfect sense to me that he, of all of those guitar
1:01:03 > 1:01:07players of his generation, would appeal to the people he appealed to.
1:01:07 > 1:01:12# Now the river sings the sweetest songs in a million harmonies
1:01:12 > 1:01:15# But the sun shines brighter on the other side
1:01:15 > 1:01:17# That's where I wanna be. #
1:01:18 > 1:01:21The blues side of it is intrinsic to rock music
1:01:21 > 1:01:24and where I've come from, my education,
1:01:24 > 1:01:26and so I felt really at home with that and when I started
1:01:26 > 1:01:30playing like that with Bert, I realise that he really locked
1:01:30 > 1:01:33into that because, essentially, a lot of his background is the blues.
1:01:38 > 1:01:42Bert gave me permission to be eclectic.
1:01:42 > 1:01:46The fact that he played, on the one hand, blues,
1:01:46 > 1:01:50on the other hand, traditional Scots ballads. I mean, I...
1:01:50 > 1:01:54I felt very, very strongly, from a very early age,
1:01:54 > 1:01:57that all that music was essentially the same.
1:01:57 > 1:02:03# I don't believe I've seen a woman like you
1:02:04 > 1:02:07# Anywhere. #
1:02:07 > 1:02:10And when you're young and sassy and you want to get going in life
1:02:10 > 1:02:14and you want to express yourself, I think
1:02:14 > 1:02:19it was the blues that attracted us to Bert.
1:02:19 > 1:02:22But he was mixing the blues with the trad.
1:02:22 > 1:02:24That was what made him unique.
1:02:28 > 1:02:29I was playing John Lee Hooker
1:02:29 > 1:02:33and Jimmy Reed stuff at the town hall in the Black Country
1:02:33 > 1:02:34opening for Gene Vincent
1:02:34 > 1:02:37and meanwhile I was going to a folk club on a Thursday night
1:02:37 > 1:02:44and playing washboard and soaking up another world alongside.
1:02:44 > 1:02:47I was just looking across and listening to him
1:02:47 > 1:02:50and getting on, wiggling around a little bit
1:02:50 > 1:02:52and getting ready for the leather trousers, I suppose.
1:03:17 > 1:03:20# Drawing water from the well
1:03:23 > 1:03:26# Spilling over on the grass
1:03:29 > 1:03:34# Walking home my heart is filled with pain
1:03:34 > 1:03:38# Oh, woe is me
1:03:39 > 1:03:43# Go your way, my love
1:03:47 > 1:03:50# Go your way, my love
1:03:54 > 1:03:58# As I walk through the trees
1:04:00 > 1:04:04# Picking up the windy leaves
1:04:06 > 1:04:10# Thinking where you may be sleeping now
1:04:11 > 1:04:15# I-I-I-I wanna die
1:04:17 > 1:04:21# Go your way, my love
1:04:23 > 1:04:29# Ooh, go your way, my love
1:04:32 > 1:04:36# As I sit, mending your clothes
1:04:38 > 1:04:43# That you will never, ever wear
1:04:44 > 1:04:49# Cooking daily for you, I prepare
1:04:51 > 1:04:55# But woe is me
1:04:56 > 1:05:00# So go your way, my love
1:05:04 > 1:05:12# Go your way, my...
1:05:42 > 1:05:44# Is there war in some far land?
1:05:47 > 1:05:51# And have you gone to lend a hand?
1:05:53 > 1:05:58# And do you lie broken and dying now?
1:05:58 > 1:06:04# Oh, I-I-I-I wanna die
1:06:05 > 1:06:10# Go you way, my love
1:06:13 > 1:06:20# Go your way, my love
1:06:21 > 1:06:23# Drawing water from the well
1:06:27 > 1:06:30# Spilling over on the grass
1:06:32 > 1:06:37# Walking home my heart is filled with pain
1:06:39 > 1:06:43# Woe is me
1:06:45 > 1:06:49# Go your way, my love
1:06:53 > 1:06:59# Go your way, my love
1:07:03 > 1:07:10# Go
1:07:11 > 1:07:19# Go
1:07:20 > 1:07:28# My love. #
1:07:30 > 1:07:32APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
1:07:39 > 1:07:44Thank you very much. Beautiful song. Thank you.
1:07:46 > 1:07:51Well, a few years ago, I bumped into Bert
1:07:51 > 1:07:58and it was a spectacular night and very moving, beautiful guitar
1:07:58 > 1:08:03and I dared to knock on his dressing room door afterwards
1:08:03 > 1:08:09and we talked for a while and we found how many amazing roots
1:08:09 > 1:08:13and influences that we all share coming from these
1:08:13 > 1:08:17different places in music and these great cross sections
1:08:17 > 1:08:21and crossroads in time in the '60s.
1:08:21 > 1:08:22Talking of that,
1:08:22 > 1:08:27I used to sing a song that was immortalised by Tim Rose
1:08:27 > 1:08:30and, I guess, the Grateful Dead
1:08:30 > 1:08:33and later in the '90s I recorded this song
1:08:33 > 1:08:36and one day there was a knock on the door and this lady
1:08:36 > 1:08:38stood at the door and she said, "You're singing my song."
1:08:38 > 1:08:43And I was totally unaware that this spectacular piece of music had
1:08:43 > 1:08:47been written by the great - ladies and gentlemen, please welcome -
1:08:47 > 1:08:48Bonnie Dobson.
1:08:48 > 1:08:51CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1:09:04 > 1:09:06And Speedo.
1:09:06 > 1:09:08LAUGHTER
1:09:08 > 1:09:10APPLAUSE
1:09:32 > 1:09:39# Take me for a walk in the morning dew, my honey
1:09:41 > 1:09:48# Take me for a walk in the morning dew, my love
1:09:50 > 1:09:57# You can't go walking in the morning dew today
1:09:59 > 1:10:06# You can't go walking in the morning dew today
1:10:08 > 1:10:10# But listen
1:10:10 > 1:10:16# I hear a man moaning, "Lord"
1:10:18 > 1:10:25# I know I hear a man moaning, "Lord"
1:10:27 > 1:10:35# You didn't hear a man moan at all
1:10:36 > 1:10:44# You didn't hear a man moan at all
1:10:45 > 1:10:53# But I know I hear my baby crying, "Mama!"
1:10:54 > 1:11:02# Yes, I know I hear my baby crying, "Mama!"
1:11:05 > 1:11:10# You'll never hear your baby cry again
1:11:14 > 1:11:20# You'll never hear your baby cry again
1:11:23 > 1:11:30# Oh, where have all the people gone?
1:11:32 > 1:11:40# Won't you tell me where have all the people gone?
1:11:43 > 1:11:48# Don't you worry about the people any more
1:11:51 > 1:11:58# Don't you worry about the people any more
1:12:40 > 1:12:44# Now there is no more morning dew, my darling
1:12:48 > 1:12:54# Now there is no more morning dew today
1:12:58 > 1:13:04# What they been saying all these years is not true, my darling
1:13:08 > 1:13:15# Oh, there is no more No more, no, no, no, no
1:13:16 > 1:13:24# Take me for a walk in the morning dew, my honey
1:13:25 > 1:13:33# Please, take me for a walk in the morning dew, my love
1:13:35 > 1:13:41# You can't go walking in the morning dew today
1:13:44 > 1:13:51# You can't go walking in the morning dew today
1:13:53 > 1:13:58# Hey, hey
1:13:58 > 1:14:03# Hey
1:14:05 > 1:14:07# Oh. #
1:14:30 > 1:14:33APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
1:14:40 > 1:14:41Bonnie Dobson.
1:14:49 > 1:14:52Would you give a big welcome to Wizz Jones?
1:14:52 > 1:14:54CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1:15:13 > 1:15:17This is a song from Bert's Black Swan album.
1:15:21 > 1:15:25And, if I'm right about who the song is about...
1:15:26 > 1:15:29..Bert sort of regrets that he didn't do more to help
1:15:29 > 1:15:31a fellow musician.
1:15:33 > 1:15:36It's from the time when Bert was living in Putney, I believe.
1:15:40 > 1:15:42And I was there, and he did do plenty.
1:15:42 > 1:15:44He did as much as a man can do.
1:15:53 > 1:15:54It's called High Days.
1:16:55 > 1:16:59# Sorry if I failed you
1:16:59 > 1:17:01# For that I'll take the blame
1:17:03 > 1:17:06# Sorry if I snubbed you
1:17:06 > 1:17:10# I'll hang my head in shame
1:17:10 > 1:17:14# Those people you call friends
1:17:14 > 1:17:17# Did you much more harm than good
1:17:17 > 1:17:21# I should've tried much harder
1:17:21 > 1:17:24# To reach out when I could
1:17:31 > 1:17:35# When the children come and visit you
1:17:35 > 1:17:38# You break into a smile
1:17:38 > 1:17:42# They fill your heart with sunshine
1:17:42 > 1:17:45# Just for a little while
1:17:46 > 1:17:49# You made a paper aeroplane
1:17:49 > 1:17:53# Just to teach them how to fly
1:17:53 > 1:17:57# When it crashed down on the runway
1:17:57 > 1:18:00# You didn't ask the pilot why
1:18:06 > 1:18:11# I got the lady from Baltimore
1:18:11 > 1:18:13# Stuck on my mind
1:18:15 > 1:18:18# Bringing back those high days
1:18:18 > 1:18:20# When we used to hang around
1:18:21 > 1:18:25# You played your guitar
1:18:25 > 1:18:28# But you never, ever finished a song
1:18:29 > 1:18:31# It didn't matter then
1:18:33 > 1:18:35# I guess it doesn't matter now
1:19:07 > 1:19:11# I got the lady from Baltimore
1:19:12 > 1:19:14# Stuck on my mind
1:19:16 > 1:19:19# Bringing back those high days
1:19:19 > 1:19:21# When we would hang around
1:19:22 > 1:19:26# You played your guitar
1:19:26 > 1:19:29# And never, ever finished a song
1:19:30 > 1:19:32# It didn't matter then
1:19:33 > 1:19:36# I guess it doesn't matter now
1:19:37 > 1:19:40# I guess it doesn't matter now. #
1:19:53 > 1:19:56APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
1:19:57 > 1:20:01He was way ahead of me, musically. I mean, it was me, Long John Baldry
1:20:01 > 1:20:04and David Graham and Martin Carthy. We thought we had it cracked.
1:20:04 > 1:20:07And then, of course, Bert arrived. It was a whole new world.
1:20:07 > 1:20:10We can all learn how to play scales and stuff like that
1:20:10 > 1:20:12and it's the personality is the unique thing in music
1:20:12 > 1:20:16that everybody tries to establish and that's something with him
1:20:16 > 1:20:18that's definitely unmistakable.
1:20:18 > 1:20:21There had been nobody like him and there has,
1:20:21 > 1:20:23since that time, been nobody like him.
1:20:24 > 1:20:29# Strolling down the highway
1:20:30 > 1:20:34# I'm gonna get there my way
1:20:36 > 1:20:40# Dusk till dawn I'm walking
1:20:40 > 1:20:43# Can't you hear my guitar rockin'
1:20:43 > 1:20:51# While I stroll on down the highway?
1:21:20 > 1:21:24# Strolling down the highway
1:21:26 > 1:21:30# I'm gonna get there my way
1:21:31 > 1:21:35# Dusk till dawn I'm walking
1:21:35 > 1:21:39# Can't you hear my guitar rockin'
1:21:39 > 1:21:47# While I stroll on down the highway? #
1:21:59 > 1:22:02APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
1:22:03 > 1:22:05Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen.
1:22:14 > 1:22:15Goodnight.