Three Chord Trick

Three Chord Trick

This is a collection of highlights from Jansch’s mid-70s period when he was signed to the Charisma label and after he had split with Pentangle. It even includes “Kingfisher” from the often difficult-to-impossible-to-find Avocet album. The remainder are tracks from L.A. Turnaround, Santa Barbara Honeymoon and A Rare Conundrum, three of Jansch’s most musically adventurous and stylistically diverse collections. Here, Jansch dips into his British folk mode (“The Curragh of Kildare”) for brief flashes, while mostly creating a mix of modern singer-songwriter sketches (“One For Jo,” “Looking for A Home”), shades of country-rock (“Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning”), near adult contemporary pop (“Love Anew”) and the occasional revisit to an old favorite (“Needle of Death” or Jackson C. Frank’s “Blues Run the Game”). This period of Jansch’s career was out of print for many years and when this album was released in 1993 it reintroduced many fans to a lost period that sounds positively brilliant in retrospect.

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