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's approach to a traditional folk song is on full display in this recording of "Blackwaterside," made during a show at London's 12 Bar and originally released in 1995. It's an approach the ...

Jimmy Page ripped off his arrangement of the traditional folk song “Blackwaterside” on Led Zeppelin‘s debut. Neil Young used his song “Needle Of Death,” as the template for his own 1974 wasteland epic ...

The Scottish acoustic-guitar legend Bert Jansch—pronounced jansh—died today, at the age of sixty-seven, after a long battle with lung cancer. He released his first solo record, “Bert Jansch,” in 1965.

Archie Fisher was playing a gig in Cardiff a few weeks ago when three young Bert Jansch aficionados turned up to hear the man who taught Jansch to play the guitar. Speaking to them between songs ...

Dave Alvin alerted us via Facebook shortly ago that British guitar master Bert Jansch has died. Jansch, who along with his band Pentangle was at the forefront of the ’60s British folk movement, was 67 ...

Photo of Bert Jansch, in Camber, England 2006 by neate photos via flickr. Englishman Bert Jansch, for nearly fifty years considered one of the world’s great practitioners of the acoustic guitar, has ...