PLEDGE WEEK: “Light Flight” by Pentangle

Andrew Hickey· Host0:00

This episode is part of Pledge Week 2025. For five days this week, I will be posting old Patreon bonus episodes to the main feed to encourage people to subscribe to my Patreon. If you want more of these, and only if you can afford it, subscribe for $1 a month at patreon.com/andrewhickey. Whether you do or not, I hope you enjoy this one.

Speaker 1· Soundbite0:21

Ba, da, da, rock and roll. Ba, da, da, yeah. Rock and roll. Rollin' on the way. Up and down, round and round we'll sway. We'll be swell. In the spell. Of the rockin', rockin' rhythm of the sea.

Andrew Hickey· Host0:40

Just a quick note before I begin this one. I have several times in earlier podcasts referred to Bert Jansch, but pronounced his name as if it had a Y, Jansch, which is how most people pronounce it and how I'd always heard it. In researching this episode though, I've discovered that he pronounced it with a J, Jansch, and so that's how I'll try to do it here and in any future episodes where he comes up, though I might easily slip up because I've been talking about him off and on for 30 years or so. Also note that this episode contains some references to alcoholism and a song about drug addiction. Finally, I like to acknowledge when episodes rely heavily on one particular source. In this case, much of the information comes from Colin Harper's biography of Bert Jansch, Dazzling Stranger. Bert Jansch is the person who gets talked about most when talking about Pentangle, because