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**_The Bert Jansch Conundrum - In Concert (Athens, Ohio, 1980)_** More Jansch! After Danny Thompson passed away a few weeks back, I had to go back to _Avocet_ , the wondrous instrumental LP Bert recorded with Thompson and multi-instrumentalist Martin Jenkins in the late 1970s. It still sounds so good. I also wanted to revisit this very sweet hour-long performance, taped in front of a live studio audience in Athens, OH, featuring Jansch, Jenkins and bassist Nigel Portman-Smith — AKA the Bert Jansch Conundrum. It comes and goes on ye olde YouTube, but it’s up in its entirety for now! The whole thing is a delight from start to finish with a bunch of great moments: a killer “Ask Your Daddy,” a lovely rendition of _Avocet_ ’s “Bittern,” and best of all, a unique “Running From Home” with Jansch and Jenkins singing in a cool round, circling each other beautifully. Jenkins is interesting to watch here — a real virtuoso on violin and electric mandocello. He even has a few solo spotlights, including a dazzling medley of jigs and reels that gets everyone in the crowd going. Martin deserves to be better known … maybe he should’ve been in bands with better names than Dando Shaft and Hedgehog Pie?! Oh well! https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/797394799145648128/the-bert-jansch-conundrum-in-concert-athens