Bert Jansch - It Don't Bother Me (1965) 

It Don't Bother Me is the second album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in November 1965. The album features nine songs and two instrumentals composed by Jansch, as well as one by Alex Campbell "Been on the Road So Long" and the traditional "900 Miles". For this last track, Jansch accompanies himself on the banjo rather than the steel-string acoustic guitar which he uses elsewhere. "My Lover" has John Renbourn playing the lead acoustic guitar part. "Lucky Thirteen" is a guitar duet also with Renbourn, based on a song written by the latter and apparently recorded during the Bert and John session. "Tinkers Blues" and "The Wheel" are guitar instrumentals composed and performed by Jansch.

Track Listing:

01. Oh My Babe
02. Ring-A-Ding Bird
03. Tinker's Blues
04. Anti Apartheid
05. The Wheel
06. A Man I'd Rather Be
07. My Lover
08. It Don't Bother Me
09. Harvest Your Thought Of Love
10. Lucky Thirteen
11. As The Day Grows Longer Now
12. Been On The Road So Long
13. Want My Daddy Now
14. 900 Miles

Bert Jansch recorded his second album in 1965, just after his self-titled debut earlier that same year. The sessions were a step-up from the intimate, field-recording setting of his first album, although still not labored over too much in the studio.

"I figured that the faster I put down the tracks, the faster I could get out of the place," Jansch told NME, "so I just ordered about a dozen bottles of wine, put the microphone in front of me and off I went, for three hours."

The lyrics of It Don't Bother Me shift vividly between pure poetic imagery and the hollow resonance of pain. The LP's underrated title song stands as a manifesto for the way Jansch lived at the time. "My Lover," featuring guitarist John Renbourn, has almost sitar-like drones, while "Lucky Thirteen" is a captivating, melancholy instrumental that shimmers with brilliant fingerpicking.