A MAN I'D RATHER BE (PART 1)

CD 1 - "Bert Jansch" (1965) (39:19)
1. Strolling Down the Highway (3:06)
2. Smokey River (2:56)
3. Oh How Your Love Is Strong (3:40)
4. I Have No Time (3:09)
5. Finches (0:51)
6. Rambling's Going to Be the Death of Me (3:18)
7. Veronica (1:32)
8. Needle of Death (3:20)
9. Do You Hear Me Now (2:06)
10. Alice's Wonderland (1:46)
11. Running from Home (2:24)
12. Courting Blues (4:02)
13. Casbah (2:10)
14. Dreams of Love (1:44)
15. Angie (3:15)

CD 2 - "It Don't Bother Me" (1965) (43:47)
1. Oh My Babe (4:00)
2. Ring-A-Ding Bird (4:42)
3. Tinker's Blues (1:10)
4. Anti Apartheid (4:05)
5. The Wheel (1:50)
6. A Man I'd Rather Be (2:05)
7. My Lover (4:02)
8. It Don't Bother Me (4:28)
9. Harvest Your Thoughts of Love (2:15)
10. Lucky Thirteen (3:32)
11. As the Day Grows Longer Now (3:44)
12. So Long (Been on the Road So Long) (3:14)
13. Want My Daddy Now (1:38)
14. 900 Miles (3:02)

CD 3 - "Jack Orion" (1966) (32:20)
1. The Waggoner's Lad (3:22)
2. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (1:45)
3. Jack Orion (9:50)
4. The Gardener (1:40)
5. Nottamun Town (4:30)
6. Henry Martin (3:17)
7. Black Water Side (3:49)
8. Pretty Polly (4:07)

CD 4 - Bert Jansch & John Renbourn: "Bert & John" (1966) (26:39)
1. East Wind (1:25)
2. Piano Tune (1:39)
3. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (3:51)
4. Soho (3:00)
5. Tic-Tocative (1:56)
6. Orlando (1:40)
7. Red's Favourite (1:34)
8. No Exit (1:26)
9. Along the Way (2:04)
10. The Time Has Come (2:55)
11. Stepping Stones (2:43)
12. After the Dance (2:26)

Total Time 142:05

- Bert Jansch / acoustic guitar, vocals, banjo
- John Renbourn / acoustic guitar (CD 2 tracks 7, 10; CD 3 tracks 1, 3, 6, 8; all of CD 4)

A book-shaped four-cd set featuring Jansch's first four albums and an essay by his sound man Bill Leader.

Earth Records, EARTHCD 023