It begins with a couple of Southern California kids back in 1967—brothers— taken with Bert Jansch's music, having been obliquely alerted to it through one's love of Donovan's music. Two songs piqued his curiosity: "Bert's Blues" and "House of Jansch".

This set produced by blues historian Samuel Charters and first issued in 1966 is sort of a "field recording" except that the recordings took place at RCA's old lakeside studios, December of 1965. It's a "field recording" in the sense that Charters' goal was to document what was happening in the small clubs dotting the South side of Chicago.

Most of the tracks here were culled from the final New Year's Eve concert (Garth Hudson breaks into "Auld Lang Syne" in the midst of the "Chest Fever" intro) that was nothing short of magical. Whether or not the songs here were tracked as performed isn't clear, not that it matters.