It Don't Bother Me

It Don't Bother Me
Studio album by
Bert Jansch
ReleasedNovember 11, 1965
Recordedc. April 1965
StudioPye Studios, Denmark Street, London
GenreFolk
LabelTransatlantic
ProducerNathan Joseph, Bill Leader (uncredited)
Bert Jansch chronology
Bert Jansch
(1965) 		It Don't Bother Me
(1965) 		Lucky Thirteen
(1966)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
Record Mirror[3]
Uncut[4]

It Don't Bother Me is the second album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in November 1965. The album was produced by Nathan Joseph and Bill Leader, although Leader was left uncredited.[5]

The album features nine songs and two instrumentals composed by Jansch, as well as one by Alex Campbell ("So Long [Been on the Road So Long]"), and the traditional "900 Miles". For this last track, Jansch accompanies himself on the banjo rather than the steel-string acoustic guitar which he uses elsewhere. "My Lover" has Roy Harper[6] playing some additional guitar, while John Renbourn is playing the lead acoustic guitar part. "Lucky Thirteen" is a guitar duet with Renbourn, based on a song written by the latter and apparently recorded during the Bert and John session.[7]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Bert Jansch, except where indicated

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Oh, My Babe"3:56
2."Ring-A-Ding Bird"4:39
3."Tinker's Blues" (Instrumental)1:04
4."Anti Apartheid"4:02
5."The Wheel" (Instrumental)1:45
6."A Man I'd Rather Be"2:04
7."My Lover"4:00
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
8."It Don't Bother Me" 4:25
9."Harvest Your Thoughts of Love" 2:12
10."Lucky Thirteen" (Instrumental)John Renbourn3:30
11."As the Day Grows Longer Now" 3:40
12."So Long (Been On the Road So Long)"Alex Campbell3:10
13."Want My Daddy Now" 1:33
14."900 Miles"Traditional3:03

References

  • Sleeve notes to Bert Jansch, it don’t bother me (TRA 132).
  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  3. ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (27 November 1965). "Bert Jansch: It Don't Bother Me" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 246. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  4. ^ MacDonald, Ian (October 1997). "Bert Jansch: Blackwater Side / Birthday Blues/Rosemary Lane". Uncut. No. 5. p. 91.
  5. ^ "Bert Jansch website". Archived from the original on 5 December 2008. Retrieved 24 November 2008.
  6. ^ A list of Roy Harper's guest appearances
  7. ^ See John Renbourn’s notes on Bert and John.


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