It is impossible to hear Scottish musician Bert Jansch's song "Needle of Death" and not be moved by its harrowing beauty. Just ask Neil Young, who attributes it as the source for "The Needle and the ...

[wpaudio url=”https://americansongwriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/04-Katie-Cruel.mp3″ text=”Bert Jansch – Katie Cruel” dl=”0″] Most recently ...

It’s one thing when a 40-plus-year career wins over the respect and eventual contributions of a succeeding folk generation. That’s part of the newly re-charmed artistic life of Bert Jansch, the ...

Celebrated Scottish guitar player and singer-songwriter Bert Jansch has died at the age of 67, following a two-year battle with cancer, The Guardian reports. Jansch’s folk-derived picking style was a ...

Attention bearded, urban-bucolic folk-rock bands of Seattle (that’s almost all of you) and the people who love them (that’s the rest): Your guru awaits. Bert Jansch, 66, plays intricate, innovative ...

Neil Young is going on a tour of the Gulf Coast (aka Florida & MS) in September: Music legend Neil Young will perform several shows in the Gulf Coast in September to aid residents affected by the oil ...

I interviewed him a couple of times, on both occasions – tellingly – to discuss the merits of other artists rather than his own considerable legacy. Lugubrious, taciturn, a little wary, Jansch was ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Future / Adam Gasson Back in the early 1970s, acoustic guitarist and songwriter Bert ...

Bert Jansch, one of the central figures of the 1960s and '70s British folk music scene, died Wednesday morning. Both as a solo artist and as a member of the group Pentangle, the guitarist, singer and ...

We remember the legendary folk artist Bert Jansch with a World Cafe session and interview from earlier this year. Early in the morning of Oct. 5, 2011, Jansch died of cancer at 67. Considered one of ...

Scottish-born singer-songwriter Bert Jansch, a guitarist in the '60s folk-jazz outfit Pentangle and a highly influential solo artist, died Wednesday in a London hospice after a long battle with cancer ...