Thank you for watching and leaving a nice comment. Looking forward to ordering a new guitar in a few weeks, so hopefully I will be re-recording all these old songs, with my improved skills, on a lovely Lowden F50, exciting times !

Thank you for taking the time to listen Jules. I bought the TAB from the excellent Henry Parker, who transcribed it himself.

I learned the song from 'John Renbourn Fingerstyle Guitar' book sir. I could take a pic of the TAB and email it to you though ?

Thank you so much for the kind comment, and for listening. I just play for my own amusement, so it's really good of you to make the effort to comment.

Sorry I stopped being admin on there a few years ago now, no idea about the website as I have not used it in years. I will pass on this to Craig who is still the main man I think running the group. What is your callsign and username ?

Just had a reply from Craig, he said the old CT forum is long gone, they did upgrade to a new forum a few years ago, so you will have to re-register on there. Your call-sign should still be logged though, as when we swapped over, I spent 6 days transferring all of the old call-sign lists to the new forum 🙂 The new forum is up and running fine as of today.

Thank you Jules, only started learning this 3 weeks ago. It's fairly intermediate level to play I think, not terribly difficult, but trying to sing at the same time lol, I find quite a challenge.

@@DjNikGnashers It may be intermediate level and "not terribly difficult to play" as you put it. However, the melody and rhythm are complicated and subtle. And I've always maintained that it is the easy songs that are 'easy' to play, but really difficult to play well! A good example is 'Bobby McGee'. Simple to play, but try doing that technically well and injecting something new and fresh into the delivery. Very hard. There are thousands of bog standard renditions of that song out there, but very few that stand out. You've done a good job in three weeks!

@@JulesPellattMessyStudySessions Thank you for the kind comments Jules. I work full time for a local water utility company, and so it's hard to put the hours in practicing after work, and as you know yourself, anything which is beyond basic open chord strumming really does take a while to learn 🙂 But kind comments from yourself and others really do give me the enthusiasm to keep plugging away, and trying to get to a place I think I would be happy with.

Love from England sir ! Bert Jansch is my hero, he wrote so many amazing songs. This is from 'When the Circus Comes to Town' one of his later albums 1995, well worth checking out the whole thing.

Thank you so much for the kind comments. Most of these videos are a few years old now, and I have improved a bit, I really should re-record them 🙂

@@DjNikGnashers Haha, that's the same with me 🤗. I'm already doing it from time to time. You should definitely do it, mate 👊🙋‍♂️.

Thank you for listening Thomas, I keep plugging away trying to learn new songs, and this is currently in my top 3 favourites, Jim was such a fantastic story teller, I just hope I do him justice.

Hi Zolee, hope you are well my friend, I haven't got a radio at the moment, but will get another some day soon and maybe have a chat again, 73's !

​@@DjNikGnashers i good thx , i hope you are ok. Yes chat with you is missing :) i hope you get radio soon, i have more power because my new radio ft-710 :) ok i wish you all the best!! '73s

Thank you Caroline !

Thank you for watching, appreciate it.

Thank you for the kind comment Jules, it's a great song isn't it, I am going to enjoy playing this out to people at some open mic nights 🙂

@@DjNikGnashers Go for it!

Hiya Marielle, great to hear from you, I'm great thanks, and I hope life is good for you too 🙂 Thanks for watching, take care x

I had a Wagner 200 cell sports cat fitted, a custom tune from hours on the dyno, xHP3 gearbox map, M Performance brakes (fitted after this video was taken), and some other minor bits. It ran at 455bhp/634nm quite happily (had the car 4 years). I wrote it off last November unfortunately, hit a patch of diesel on a dual carriageway pulling away from a roundabout. I'm now in an OG M2 (see my avatar).

Thank you Brian, appreciate the comment. Do you play yourself ?

@DjNikGnashers just bought berts' latest guitar tab book. For the last couple of days, I've been learning "the carragh of kildare" It doesn't come easy for me but I'm hey I'm getting there.

@@brianwilkie6079 Great choice ! I just bought Bert Transcribed vol 2 myself, only a week ago (I had vol 1 for a few years now), they are both very good books, accurate TAB and some very good insights in the text about Bert's life etc, really interesting. If you haven't got it, another great book is 'British Fingerpicking Guitar' by MELBAY (it was compiled by Stefan Grossman), it has Davey Graham, Bert, and John Renbourn songs in. Another called 'John Renbourn fingerstyle guitar' by the same people, excellent.

Aww you're too kind.

Thank you so much for your comment, and for listening.

Thank you for the kind words, I wish I had the confidence for that.

@@DjNikGnashers ah! Fear! Yes went through that made up all that negative stuff in my head! Then whey I actually went out for the first time realised people just walked past me! That’s what’s grate about it the no one is going to care! But you soon relax and get used to that! It’s when you put your hat down that you realise that people will sometimes put money in it! I talk to people going by hi how it going? It doesn’t matter but it an ice breaker gets you over your nerves the start of learning stage craft You find after a while you wonder what all the fuss was about! Your well good enough to play on the street you build it up go just do 5 songs? No hat then next put your hat down not that that’s important it’s up to you it’s all about the music you enjoy playing don’t be put off! It’s fun you meet people the talk to you it makes you stronger it’s what it’s About next stage pubs party’s etc the more you do it the easier in becomes you’ll be fine! Keep the faith!

@@theascendance Thank you for the inspiring words. I can play about 30 songs now, and I was going to a few folk jam nights and open mics, but they shut down when the covid lockdowns happened, and there are none nearby now. Some of the local pubs have open mic nights, but it's all pop & rock stuff completely different to the music I like to play. Busking might be the best option for me to gain confidence in performing in front of others to be fair.

@@DjNikGnashers go! for it you got to have that I don’t care attitude! The stage is where ever! I lay my hat!

Thanks Allan, It's a great Bert song, wish I could play it like the master himself !!

@@DjNikGnashers I have to admire you for even making the attempt and it's rather good. It's the only non-Bert one I've come across. KUDOS. These days I listen to a lot of Pierre stuff (Old Picker) but there are many excellent Bert Type people like Sean Siegfried (Chambertin, Alman and others).

@@DjNikGnashers Nik, It's fine. It's different but absolutely lovely.

Hello my friend, I hope life is treating you well.

@@DjNikGnashers o yeah all is ok my friend, i hope you are ok. All the best, take care. '73s

Hi Jules, I just put the video up for a friend who wanted to know how I played the basic patterns. I learned it from the Paul Simon songbook, so it should be fairly accurate (although Paul probably plays it a different way each time he performs it !).

@@DjNikGnashers Nik - I really like your use of the D(Add9, add11) chord (like the C-chord slid up two frets. That works really well! You end the riff under the opening vocals in Em. I think Paul Simon actually uses E - E7. I'm fairly confident about this as a friend of mine used to perform in the same London venues as Paul Simon in the 1960s and knew him well enough to lend him his guitar on occasion. Of course 'Homeward Bound' was one of Paul Simon's classic songs from this era and my friend, Marc, told me of the E-E7 at this point in the song. If you've not come across it previously, I do a cover of this which uses this sequence: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXibhaBnjpZrd9U. Anyway, happy playing and I hope that may have been helpful.

@@JulesPellattMessyStudySessions Thanks Jules, I'll give it a go !

Thank you, really appreciate you taking the time to listen and comment. It's not too hard, just a couple of tricky bits, let me know if you manage to learn it and post a video, I'd love to listen.

@@DjNikGnashers i ll start working on it, you departed from where? any scpecific tab or site?

@@LionPW I learned it from the bert jansch songbook, bert transcribed Pedro.

@@DjNikGnashers thanks, didnt know he transcribed his music, i gonna get it

Thank you for listening and commenting, I can play it better now than this recording, it's a great song.

Thank you for the kind comment, I am just a bedroom guitarist but I continue to strive to be better.

Thank you for the kind comment, really appreciate that !

I'm sorry I don't, although I think it was one of Jerry's own compositions.

Bruce Springsteen - I’m on fire.

@@CHDEXTER5 thank you :)

Ahh you're too kind. I can't read music Jules, so I just stumble along by ear, and play what I think sounds nice.

@@DjNikGnashers You and me both - by ear!!

Thank you so much Jules. I'm not a naturally gifted musician, it's just hours of struggling away trying to hit the right strings. I don't worry too much if I'm playing it faithful to the original, I just enjoy playing it the way I can manage to, and if it sounds ok to me, that's good enough :-))

@@DjNikGnashers It is your type of cover music that I enjoy the most on YT because your love of the material comes across, you put your own 'stamp' on the pieces and you don't overproduce perfect quality recordings that can actually be rather dull, especially if they ape the originals in every respect. Keep up the good work, Sir! I can't read music or notation - it's all in my head!

Thank you Jules, it's one of the trickier songs I learned, especially the picking hand. Standard tuning, capo on 2nd fret, 3rd chord is (counting from the capo) X05530 I tend to keep my 2nd finger on and just add my ring finger/pinky to make the new chord, as the previous chord and following chord are the same Am7 shape.

@@DjNikGnashers Thank you, Nik. That's brilliant! I think that is an Am11, which I've never thought of using in this song; but it is perfect! As you say, a difficult song, not least because of Renbourn's deft, light tough when syncopating the right-hand rhythm picking. What a genius player! I will definitely have a go at recording this in the light of your help. Many thanks again.

I forgot to mention: I cannot fully replicate JR's pick/strum technique when he brushes/flicks the nails of his right hand in downstrokes (ditto many other players like James Taylor). The simple reason is that my nails are thin and brittle and don't last long in either up or down strokes! Consequently, I've been using metal finger-picks for many years - but this means I cannot play those downstrokes as the picks are pulled off! If you're interested they are National NP2-B brass picks and give a really clear, mellow sound on D'Addario phosphor bronze light gauge strings (also use them for the same reason when finger-picking the 12-string). I know one professional player in the UK, Dave Howard, who uses finger-picks (Gibson hard plastic ones) who manages to play strong downstrokes without losing his picks. I've tried but only manage a feeble, tinny sound otherwise the picks fly!

@@JulesPellattMessyStudySessions Thank you Jules. To be honest, I don't use a thumb pick, nor do I use my nails. I actually trim all of my nails very short, because I actually love the soft, warm, sound of flesh on the strings. I don't particularly like the click you get when striking with a nail or thumb pick. I play things in a way I like the sound of, and don't really try to emulate my heroes, because I know I will never be as good as John, Renbourn, Bert Jansch, John Martyn, Jim Croce, Dave Evans, etc. Hence I don't try to :-) I loved the way Bert almost plucked the bass strings off his guitar, awesome & aggressive sound, but a few years ago at an open mic when I played a few Bert Jansch songs, somebody said to me "don't worry about not sounding like Bert, none of us can, just play things your own way, and simply be yourself", and that has stuck with me. I also use Elixer polyweb strings to cut down on the string noise, as that is another thing I don't really like to hear when I play. But hey, everyone has their own 'thing' and I never try to suggest anyone else plays in the same way I do, I just do what works for me. And if somebody else enjoys my playing, like yourself, it just makes me feel honoured that they took the time out of their busy lives to actually listen and appreciate my playing, it means so much, genuinely.

@@DjNikGnashers interesting insights, Nik. You certainly make the most of those fingers!