From the Outside

From the Outside
Studio album by Bert Jansch
Released	September 1985 in Belgium
Recorded	c. late 1983-1985 at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen and Hern Place Studios, Sunningdale
Genre	Folk
Label	Konnexion Records
Producer	No producer credited
Bert Jansch chronology
Heartbreak (1982) From the Outside (1985) Leather Launderette (1989)

Professional ratings
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Allmusic	[1]

From the Outside is the fifteenth album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released as a limited edition of 500 copies in Belgium in 1985. From The Outside was available in the UK as well, but the label is unknown.^[2]

Colin Harper describes the album on his Bert Jansch biography, "Dazzling Stranger": "Towards the end of 1985 a solo album called From the Outside appeared, but only just. Cobbled together from sessions in Denmark and London, with unsympathetic engineers and featuring only guitar and voice, it was Bert's rawest and most cathartic work since Bert Jansch twenty years earlier. It slipped out on the tiny Belgian label Konexion in a pressing of only five hundred copies, and a greater contrast to [Bert's previous studio album] Heartbreak would be hard to imagine."^[3]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Bert Jansch; except where indicated

1. "From The Outside" - 1:43
2. "Change The Song" - 3:16
3. "Read All About It" - 3:04
4. "Shout" - 3:18
5. "Ah Sure Wanna Know" - 3:32
6. "Times Is An Old Friend" - 2:53
7. "If You're Thinking 'Bout Me" (Jansch, Portman Smith) - 2:42
8. "Silver Raindrops" - 2:42
9. "Still Love Her Not That She's Gone" - 2:54
10. "Get Out My Life" - 2:35
11. "Sweet Rose" - 3:02
12. "Blues All Around Me" - ?:??
13. "From The Inside" - 1:46

CD reissue tracklist (Hypertension 1993)

1. "Sweet Rose" - 3:02
2. "Blackbird in the Morning" - 3:40
3. "Read All About It" - 3:04
4. "Change the Song" - 3:16
5. "Shout" - 3:18
6. "From The Outside" - 1:43
7. "If You're Thinking 'Bout Me" (Jansch, Portman Smith) - 2:42
8. "Silver Raindrops" - 2:42
9. "Why Me? (Still Love Her Not That She's Gone)" - 2:54
10. "Get Out of My Life" - 2:35
11. "Time Is An Old Friend" - 2:53
12. "River Running" - 3:17
13. "High Emotion" - 3:30
14. "From The Inside" - 1:46

Personnel

• Bert Jansch - guitar, banjo, vocals

References

1. Allmusic review
2. "Bert Jansch website". Retrieved 2008-11-25.
3. Harper, Colin (2006). Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival (2006 edition). Bloomsbury. ISBN 0-7475-8725-6.