Bert Jansch's first album is still one of my absolute favourites. We all used to sit round trying to emulate his picking style especially Anji. One would judge a guitar player by their ability to play it back in the 60's. I met Bert once in a folk club in S. London. I asked him why he wasn't rich and famous yet and he replied: "I was just thinking that myself!" R.I.P. Bert Jansch.
I just love' Halfway Home by Tommy Emmanuel for Bert Jansch. I too bought Lucky 13 and Pentangle and more by them and by Bert. Thank you Tommy Emmanuel.
Thanks Tommy, I discovered Bert in the mid sixties got his albums on transatlantic label with Bert and John R saw him solo a few times and Pentangle, like a few folk bought him a couple beers abd chatted for an hour post show a true gentlemen I still enjoy those early sounds..
Why is it that nearly every time I watch Tommy play, my eyes water and I smile the whole way through the song. He has been such a blessing. And with that track my mind went to walking a dusty country road, afternoon sun, guitar slung over the back, walking, about half way home :). His ability to find rhythms that help tell the story, sensational :)
I wonder if Bert Jansch misses his guitar? Probably not as long as Tommy is playing it. I never thought about that before. I'm gonna feel cheated when I have leave mine behind. I better go play it now. Oh, and go tell my wife I love her too.
No question it's sweet, just because its old & mint alone, as well as such a historical gem. Though honestly every version of that song that I've ever heard sounds better on his Maton's. Though there is no way to know off hand, if it was just a cheap mic, since nifty ones are often well worth every penny.
One of my favourite pieces of music. Always used sing “coz I’m always halfway home” to myself before I ever heard Tommy sing it! Always knew he could make a guitar speak 😁
I could sit and listen to these types of melodies all day long ! Wonderfully played. I love Bert Jansch - and I believe I've got all of him that he put down on records. One time in -79 (or was it 1980) he and his two men from "Bert Jansch Conundrum" that had just recorded "Thirteen Down" - came to play at a pub with a rather large scene - in a small nearby town - Horten - here in Vestfold, Norway. I went there with my girlfriend that I had managed to turn into a die hard fan too. The Management had forgotten to promote this gig - and I just got wind of it by chance. So, only around 7 or 8 people altogether showed up. Bert thought it looked silly to play for just a handfull of listeners from a stage - so they moved into the pub itself - and there we suddenly found ourselves sitting in a half circle around the 3 famous Musicians 2 meters from the Masters feet. It felt as we were allowed to sit on his lap while listening to their songs. And I was Star Struck. Halfway into the toned down show the Fiddler's violin broke down - and he wasn't able to fix it. Bert Jansch gave up. I believe that this performance must have been the absolute rock bottom of his whole career. The man that only a few years earlier har sold out "The Royal Albert Hall." As they sat down to eat steakes in that same pub afterwards - I got a chance to talk a few words with them - and I apologised on behalf of my country men for the disrespectful behaviour of not showing up. But I told them that I believed that that evening probably would be with me to the day I die. Bert Jansch didn't say much. That said, I think this tune resembles another extremely good Amerikan musician - LEO KOTTKE - even more than it resembles Bert. LEO - and his mentor JOHN FAHEY - are also my absolute favourites. Around the same time Leo KOTTKE visited Norway and Oslo for the first time, I believe. And me and my girlfriend were sitting again in the front row. Before the show I sneaked backstage and bought with me my favourite KOTTKE record "Burnt Lips" for him to sign. And so he did. I was possibly even more star-struck this time - but I managed to have a few word with him as well. He was promoting his record "Balance" at that time. (I got to touch his black, reinforced fibreglass guitarcase that he is holding on the cover of that LP.)
Listening to Tommy is like travelling around the world, seeing so many different places. Well I guess that’s what he did, and his craft is amazing, to be able to evoke such vivid images and memories through melodies. Thanks Tommy 🙏🏻
Bert Jansch was a major influence on my picking, along with Tommy E. A close friend of mine toured with Bert a few decades ago. And, of course, Jimmy Page utilized Bert's guitar parts in a few of his recordings. Which I learned to play back in the early 70s. I have been lucky enough to meet Tommy a few times. and most recently Mike Dawes was touring with him, and we got to chat again. Mike also being an amazing fingerstyle player with individual techniques. Thanks to Tommy for this nice tune of his, played on Bert's Yamaha. What a sound that guitar has. Sounded like Bert was playing it. Thanks
it's hard to understand... in today's world... just what an impact bert jansch had.. with his first album... way back in the 60s... strolling down the highway... veronica... needle of death... quite an extra ordinary awakening to what would unfold for so many guitar players... john martyn.. nick drake... so so many players
These days, when COVID19 is out here and there and elsewhere through Parma, where I live, and Italy.. 2:24.. this piece is a little sun, opens our hearts to hope..back on halfway home of a new world state of mind and awareness.. 🙏⭐✳️🌞🌄🌞✳️⭐🙏
Ciao Francesco...stay strong... we will overcome this with a collective effort. Italy must show us the way....from a fellow-fan of Tommy, and a Canadian of Italian heritage...coraggio!
@@fretlessblunder Ciao Rob, grazie. We will soon overcome this situation. I think what's happening is trying to teach us all a lesson: WE must remember WE are all one and WE must take care of each other AND planet earth biodiversity. It's plain. A heartful greeting to Canada, a place I have never been to; I love it and hope to come there soon.. A presto.. 🙏
😮Tommy, Pentangle played in Sydney in the mid 1970s. They played a concert I attended at the Sydney Town Hall - Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Jacqui McShee and Terry Cox. Sydney Town Hall acoustics were awful at that time, but it was a truly great, memorable concert
So awesome... I just want to be as happy as Tommy. And as passionate about something as he is with playing guitar. I can't sleep, heaps sad, thought I'd try remember what it's all about. Legend, thank you.
His peace and joy comes from having experienced a new way of thinking when he accepted God into his life in his twenties. It's available to all of us if we stop running from HIM. Blessings bro
Tony is about the most virtuoso player of acoustic picking I've heard. I still think Michael Hedges is the best acoustic guitar performer there has ever been. Tony is up there with Bert and Stefan Grossman too. Luv and Peace.
Just FYI Tommy, Bert was Scottish. Born Stobhill Hospital Glasgow >Herbert Jansch was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter. He recorded at least 25 albums and toured extensively from the 1960s to the 21st century.
Bert Jansch John Renbourn opened my ears to what a guitar should sound like in 1966
Tommy is one of Australia's finest musical gifts to the world.
I'd say the World's instead, without even blinking an eye.
Yes number 1 ))
Probably THE finest....imho
@@tipp55 Hell yeh ....
@@MrPennystyle01 Jeez....did you not hear Tommy say, "a song I wrote..." in the introduction?
Tommy is a genuine Treasure to the World.
@@MrPennystyle01 he has may original pieces aswell. What's your point?
@@MrPennystyle01 let's see you cover something, bet you don't even know how to tune a guitar so gtfo.
Jansch and Renbourn were the dynamic duo. Love Pentangle! ☺
Nice job Tommy!
Tommy is a crazy good guitar player. This song has some Beatles flavor to it
Bert Jansch's first album is still one of my absolute favourites. We all used to sit round trying to emulate his picking style especially Anji. One would judge a guitar player by their ability to play it back in the 60's. I met Bert once in a folk club in S. London. I asked him why he wasn't rich and famous yet and he replied: "I was just thinking that myself!" R.I.P. Bert Jansch.
In America, that record was on Vanguard, entitled, "Lucky Thirteen". I also liked particularly Rosemary Lane on Warners.
Robert Pickacard ......I still play that album!
What a gorgeous performance. Burt Jansch was a great gift and inspiration to every listener and player with impeccable taste in guitar music.
Oh my... I love the way he forgets himself in the flow of music and than sudenly he starts "out of nowhere" to sing... Just one line
Now that’s a tribute. What a bright and masterful song. Thank you.
Just how amazing of a guitarist is Tommy. Simply incredible! He makes the very difficult look easy. The best guitarist my eyes have ever seen.
I just love' Halfway Home by Tommy Emmanuel for Bert Jansch. I too bought Lucky 13 and Pentangle and more by them and by Bert. Thank you Tommy Emmanuel.
When I heard Bert play Anji ( Angie ), I remembered Paul Simon playing Angie on Sounds Of Silence lp. 1966. Thanks.
@@michaelhaydn9504 He stole it from its author who I think was Davey Graham.
Thanks Tommy, I discovered Bert in the mid sixties got his albums on transatlantic label with Bert and John R saw him solo a few times and Pentangle, like a few folk bought him a couple beers abd chatted for an hour post show a true gentlemen I still enjoy those early sounds..
I was living in Sydney in the late sixties. How did I miss such a great guitarist as you Tommy. Glad I’ve found you now , love your music 👏👏
Man I love you Brother Tommy! Many more years ,with length of days and health, to you.
Why is it that nearly every time I watch Tommy play, my eyes water and I smile the whole way through the song. He has been such a blessing. And with that track my mind went to walking a dusty country road, afternoon sun, guitar slung over the back, walking, about half way home :). His ability to find rhythms that help tell the story, sensational :)
So glad you mentioned Bert Jansch. He changed my direction in playing guitar!
The guitar sounds so much like Bert! We have enjoyed hearing Tommy play this at the start of so many concerts.
Wonderful tribute from one legend to another. Thank you, Tommy!
Holy smokes what a great performance and incredible sounding guitar.
Bert was one of the best guitarists from Scotland. Very fitting that his Yamaha is played in this video by one the best from Australia
I not only got to see this beautiful instrument, I had the privilege to play it. Once in a lifetime thrill.
I wonder if Bert Jansch misses his guitar? Probably not as long as Tommy is playing it. I never thought about that before. I'm gonna feel cheated when I have leave mine behind. I better go play it now. Oh, and go tell my wife I love her too.
Jeff Kelley I doubt it he’s dead
No question it's sweet, just because its old & mint alone, as well as such a historical gem. Though honestly every version of that song that I've ever heard sounds better on his Maton's. Though there is no way to know off hand, if it was just a cheap mic, since nifty ones are often well worth every penny.
Great song Tommy. One of those “good melodies”.
Bert, John, Davy Graham, Pentangle........ they were the days.
Back in the late seventies, in Stockholm, I played Angie with Bert Jansch, and on another occasion I played it with John Renbourn.
Renbourn is such a guitar giant
you are one lucky so-and-so!!!
Tommy is a modern day Mozart, Bach and Beethoven all in one gracious man!!!
Very clean, with just the right amount of flash. Thumbs up to crush a troll.
The Man himself..Mr Tommy Emmanuel🙏❤️beautiful Tribute to Bert👈
I've cried 🍀
One of my favourite pieces of music. Always used sing “coz I’m always halfway home” to myself before I ever heard Tommy sing it! Always knew he could make a guitar speak 😁
Yamaha Guitar the LL-TA transAcoustic. Beautiful play, beautiful guitar
Bert was amazing, but so are you Tommy.. peace brother, another one of my heros....
Magnificent composition!
It's a very touching tribute from the part of Emmanuel!
Absolutely beautiful.
What a fine lad
This guy is touching me as no other does. Einstein of Guitar.
Beautiful. What remarkable talent you have Tommy. Thank you. Loved the tune.
I was blessed to see Bert at crossroads 2010, and that was a discovery for me to him and many other of his peers. Special musician and person.
Lovely tribute thank you Tommy
I could sit and listen to these types of melodies all day long !
Wonderfully played.
I love Bert Jansch - and I believe I've got all of him that he put down on records.
One time in -79 (or was it 1980) he and his two men from "Bert Jansch Conundrum" that had just recorded
"Thirteen Down" - came to play at a pub with a rather large scene - in a small nearby town - Horten - here in
Vestfold, Norway.
I went there with my girlfriend that I had managed to turn into a die hard fan too.
The Management had forgotten to promote this gig - and I just got wind of it by chance.
So, only around 7 or 8 people altogether showed up.
Bert thought it looked silly to play for just a handfull of listeners from a stage -
so they moved into the pub itself - and there we suddenly found ourselves sitting in a half circle
around the 3 famous Musicians 2 meters from the Masters feet.
It felt as we were allowed to sit on his lap while listening to their songs.
And I was Star Struck.
Halfway into the toned down show the Fiddler's violin broke down - and he wasn't able to fix it.
Bert Jansch gave up. I believe that this performance must have been the absolute rock bottom
of his whole career. The man that only a few years earlier har sold out "The Royal Albert Hall."
As they sat down to eat steakes in that same pub afterwards - I got a chance to talk a few words
with them - and I apologised on behalf of my country men for the disrespectful behaviour of not showing up.
But I told them that I believed that that evening probably would be with me to the day I die.
Bert Jansch didn't say much.
That said, I think this tune resembles another extremely good Amerikan musician - LEO KOTTKE -
even more than it resembles Bert.
LEO - and his mentor JOHN FAHEY - are also my absolute favourites.
Around the same time Leo KOTTKE visited Norway and Oslo for the first time, I believe.
And me and my girlfriend were sitting again in the front row.
Before the show I sneaked backstage and bought with me my favourite KOTTKE record
"Burnt Lips" for him to sign. And so he did.
I was possibly even more star-struck this time - but I managed to have a few word with him as well.
He was promoting his record "Balance" at that time.
(I got to touch his black, reinforced fibreglass guitarcase that he is holding on the cover of that LP.)
Tommy Emmanuel: A great guitar player. An even better human being. Love you Tommy ... Nice tribute to BJ
Fantastic
What a great piece!
Listening to Tommy is like travelling around the world, seeing so many different places. Well I guess that’s what he did, and his craft is amazing, to be able to evoke such vivid images and memories through melodies. Thanks Tommy 🙏🏻
thank you Tommy
Bert Jansch was a major influence on my picking, along with Tommy E. A close friend of mine toured with Bert a few decades ago. And, of course, Jimmy Page utilized Bert's guitar parts in a few of his recordings. Which I learned to play back in the early 70s. I have been lucky enough to meet Tommy a few times. and most recently Mike Dawes was touring with him, and we got to chat again. Mike also being an amazing fingerstyle player with individual techniques. Thanks to Tommy for this nice tune of his, played on Bert's Yamaha. What a sound that guitar has. Sounded like Bert was playing it. Thanks
How kind...nice guy
man oh man , absolutely spellbinding . Beautiful
That right there made my day in multiple dimensions. Thank you!
One of my favorite Tommy tunes!
Thank you Tommy..RIP Bert🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
The tone of the guitar is distinct and very beautiful. Quite warm.
Very nice tribute ! Those extended pull-off reminds me of Bert's on the B minor in the song I have no time
Master guitarist well known and respected in the UK amoungst the guitar community.
it's hard to understand... in today's world... just what an impact bert jansch had.. with his first album... way back in the 60s... strolling down the highway... veronica... needle of death... quite an extra ordinary awakening to what would unfold for so many guitar players... john martyn.. nick drake... so so many players
It is an honor for me to be breathing on the same planet as you, Tommy.
Oh my, so good. Bert and Tommy, both.
Can you imagine that stage? Tommy opening up for Bert?
Delightful, thank you! 🍾❤️
There’s a video of Tommy playing this with Jerry Douglas. Crazy good.
super! i have a 50 year old yamaha and i can confirm that they age well :)
I recently bought one just like this and it sounds incredible!
I have one too... I bought it in 1972, delivered daily newspapers for 2 years to pay for it! I still have it...
Brings joy to my ears!
These days, when COVID19 is out here and there and elsewhere through Parma, where I live, and Italy..
2:24..
this piece is a little sun, opens our hearts to hope..back on halfway home of a new world state of mind and awareness..
🙏⭐✳️🌞🌄🌞✳️⭐🙏
Ciao Francesco...stay strong... we will overcome this with a collective effort. Italy must show us the way....from a fellow-fan of Tommy, and a Canadian of Italian heritage...coraggio!
@@fretlessblunder Ciao Rob, grazie. We will soon overcome this situation. I think what's happening is trying to teach us all a lesson: WE must remember WE are all one and WE must take care of each other AND planet earth biodiversity. It's plain.
A heartful greeting to Canada, a place I have never been to; I love it and hope to come there soon.. A presto..
🙏
Fabulous! Thank you Tommy, 🙏.
😮Tommy, Pentangle played in Sydney in the mid 1970s. They played a concert I attended at the Sydney Town Hall - Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Jacqui McShee and Terry Cox. Sydney Town Hall acoustics were awful at that time, but it was a truly great, memorable concert
Superb
Tommy you are a lovely man!!
uah! 💥🎸💥 🐻👍
Excelente Tom Emmanuel......
Beautiful Tommy, thanx.
Дякую, Tommy.
Wow man!! That was beautiful! Thanks a lot!
just pure class.
So awesome... I just want to be as happy as Tommy. And as passionate about something as he is with playing guitar. I can't sleep, heaps sad, thought I'd try remember what it's all about. Legend, thank you.
His peace and joy comes from having experienced a new way of thinking when he accepted God into his life in his twenties. It's available to all of us if we stop running from HIM. Blessings bro
That's a great tune.
Tommy...you make that Yamaha guitar sound great!
Thanks Tommy for spreading so much love.❤️
Tony is about the most virtuoso player of acoustic picking I've heard.
I still think Michael Hedges is the best acoustic guitar performer there has ever been.
Tony is up there with Bert and Stefan Grossman too.
Luv and Peace.
Hedges was one with the muse. Dreaming out loud. I'm not sure what 'the best' mean, but he was and is the real deal.
Even the guitar sounds like Bert!
Tommy. Can’t beat ya buddy!
Priceless !
Amazing playing Tommy, and that Yamaha is sounding really good.
Legend of guitar
It's been too long since I've listened to Tommy and to Bert. Man! That is one swweet sounding Yammy!! Thanks guys!
Just FYI Tommy, Bert was Scottish. Born Stobhill Hospital Glasgow >Herbert Jansch was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter. He recorded at least 25 albums and toured extensively from the 1960s to the 21st century.
Nice song !! Touching !
The guitar has a beautiful tone
Großartig!
This probably first time for me to see Tommy play Yamaha on acoustic thumbs up man
I always wondered if Tommy was a fan of Bert Jansch.
How could any fingerstyle guitarist not be?
Fabulous, I loved it.
Guitars make lovely planters you know.
Amazing talent.
La chemise !! Incredible!
Pure genius
such an inspiration! Thank you!🙏🏻
As usual Tommy is amazing Bert would have loved this
Love the Rio Theater. Miss Santa Cruz. :-(
Beautiful playing
Legend