Thirteen Down
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Thirteen Down is the thirteenth album by Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 folk musician Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch
Herbert "Bert" Jansch was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s, as an acoustic guitarist, as well as a singer-songwriter...

, released in 1980. The album, credited as "The Bert Jansch Conundrum", originally appeared with at least three different sleeves, in the UK, US and Australia. There were also, on some or all of these packagings, dubious writing credits for "If I Had A Lover" and "Sweet Mother Earth", adaptations of a Swedish and Brazilian song respectively.

Track listing

  1. "Una Linea Di Dolcezza" (Jansch, Jenkins) - 3:40
  2. "Let Me Sing" (Jansch, Jenkins) - 3:06
  3. "Down River" (Jansch, Jenkins) - 3:17
  4. "Nightfall" (Jenkins) - 2:56
  5. "If I Had a Lover" (Jansch, traditional) - 2:15
  6. "Time And Love" (Jansch, traditional) - 3:10
  7. "In My Mind" (Jansch, traditional) - 2:22
  8. "Sovay
    Sovay
    Sovay is a traditional English folk song about a young woman who dresses and arms herself as a highwayman in order to test her suitor. In disguise she robs her suitor of nearly all his possessions, but even under threat of death he refuses to give up the gold ring given by Sovay, thus proving...

    " (traditional) - 2:55
  9. "Where Did My Life Go" (Jansch) - 2:56
  10. "Single Rose" (Jansch) - 2:50
  11. "Ask Your Daddy" (Jansch) - 2:57
  12. "Sweet Mother Earth" (unknown) - 3:48
  13. "Bridge" (Jansch, Jenkins) - 2:34

Credits

  • Bert Jansch - guitar, vocals
  • Martin Jenkins - mandocello, violin, flute, vocals
  • Nigel Portman Smith - bass, Fender Rhodes, accordion
  • Luce Langridge - drums, percussion
  • Jacqui McShee
    Jacqui McShee
    thumb|300px|right|Jacqui McShee performing with [[Pentangle]] at the 2007 [[BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards]]Jacqueline 'Jacqui' McShee is an English singer. Since 1966 she has performed with Pentangle, a jazz influenced folk rock band.-Biography:McShee's musical career began as a soloist in British folk...

    - lead vocals on 5
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