Thirteen Down

Thirteen Down
Studio album by Bert Jansch
Released	July 1980 in the UK (credited as "The Bert Jansch Conundrum")
Recorded	1979 at Livingstone Studios, London
Genre	Folk
Length	38:53
Label	Sonet
Producer	Bert Jansch, Martin Jenkins, Portman Smith and Nic Kinsey
Bert Jansch chronology
Avocet (1979) Thirteen Down (1980) Heartbreak (1982)

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Thirteen Down is the thirteenth album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, 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.^[2]

Track listing

1. "Una Linea Di Dolcezza" (Jansch) - 3:40
2. "Let Me Sing" (Jansch) - 3:06
3. "Down River" (Jansch) - 3:17
4. "Nightfall" (Jenkins) - 2:56
5. "If I Had a Lover" (Jansch) - 2:15
6. "Time And Love" (Jansch) - 3:10
7. "In My Mind" (Jansch) - 2:22
8. "Sovay" (Trad., arr. Jansch, Jenkins, Smith) - 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" (Milton Nascimento - "Cio da Terra") - 3:48
13. "Bridge" (Jansch, Jenkins) - 2:34

Personnel

• Bert Jansch - guitar, vocals
• Martin Jenkins - mandocello, violin, flute, vocals
• Nigel Portman Smith - bass, Fender Rhodes, accordion
• Luce Langridge - drums, percussion
• Jacqui McShee - lead vocals on 5

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