Bert Jansch – L.A. Turnaround

I love ‘One For Jo’, how he fits all those words in so crazily and beautifully at the same time. And ‘Needle of Death’ is extraordinary. How it distils that period in time and the discovery of this drug – it’s incredible how he wrote a song about it. It’s so graphic and specific. It leaves you with the sensation that Trainspotting gives you – waking up in dark rooms, cigarette butts all around you. But this is a sunny record at many points, too. It’s a favourite of mine.