During US tours in 2010-11, the late Bert Jansch played a handful of songs that were either never recorded or, if recorded, are as yet unreleased. There are a few audience recordings of these, one of which is conveniently on YouTube – featuring two of these works in progress, ‘Chase the Devil’ and ‘Duckin’ and Divin’, the latter written after a couple of gigs with Pete Doherty. I wonder if Pete knows?
The opening line (repeated after a fluff) is fabulous:
‘When you get where you’re going you wanna be somewhere else…’
Here at 21:20 (with ‘Chase the Devil’ at 17:25):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-14pC6wns&t=1874s
Followed the links through to a very nice doc on the man – “Dreamweaver”.
I hope to align enough planets to have the film made available on DVD (or whatever) in due course.
Another of Bert’s four (at least) commercially unrecorded songs performed during 2010-11 US tours. This one is ‘Chase the Devil’: