Bert Jansch: Avocet (reissue)

Bert Jansch

Avocet

Earth Recordings

Here’s a nice curio – that seems to make more sense now than it perhaps did at the time; among a bunch of Bert Jansch reissues – lovingly handled with booklet-length liners, et al – comes this bonkers-but-charming album-length paean to British birds, Avocet. Recorded in 1979 it arrived in punk/post-punk times and its pas…