pressing details
Sealed • Drag City Records • 180g • includes lyric insert • new liner notes • plus CD with 6 previously unreleased songs • stereo • US • £19.99
The 1975 follow-up to the critically acclaimed LA Turnaround, Santa Barbara Honeymoon represents the peak of Charisma’s attempts to transform his introspective style into full-blooded mainstream appeal. Some Jansch aficianados reject it out of hand on that basis alone but, while producer Danny Lane engages in some unnecessary excesses with reverb, phase shifters and syncopated guitar, it still has some classic moments. A full-blooded Dixieland jazz band, swirling synths and frenetic arrangements maintain a vigorous intensity while it also includes some wonderful Jansch songs – the beautiful ballad When The Teardrops Fell, the catchy Baby Blue and his alternative story of Mary and Joseph among them. There’s also a charming treatment of the old standard You Are My Sunshine and a telling re-visit to one of his signature songs, Jackson C Frank’s Blues Run The Game.
Colin Irwin
1. Love Anew
2. Mary and Joseph
3. Be My Friend
4. Baby Blue
5. Dance Lady Dance
6. You Are My Sunshine
7. Lost and Gone
8. Blues Run the Game
9. Built Another Band
10. When the Teardrops Fell
11. Dynamite
12. Buckrabbit
further information
Original label/catalogue number:
Charisma
Original date of release:
October 1975
Personnel:
Bert Jansch (vocals, guitars); Jim Baker (guitar); Jay Lacy (electric guitar); Bill Smith (keyboards); David Barry (keyboards); George Seymour (synthesizer); Robert Greenidge (steel drum); Don Whaley (bass); Ernie McDaniels (bass); David Hungate (bass); Danny Lane (drums); Tris Imboden (drums)
Producer:
Danny Lane
Recording details:
c. April-June 1975 at Sound City, Van Nuys, California
