ROSEMARY LANE

Cutting against the grain of popular trends in folk music, whilst electric folk was at the high water mark of its fashion Bert Jansch put out this acoustic, classically-tinged album of much more traditional material, Captivatingly emotional, with an unabashedly romantic bent, there's a certain timelessness to the material here. With impeccable performance and production standards, and a complete independence from fashionable trends, the album sounds like it could have been made at any point in the last four or five decades - provided, of course, you had a Bert Jansch handy to pull off the heartfelt sincerity of the performance. Four stars sounds right.