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 ...

Scottish folk guitarist Bert Jansch passed away earlier today, succumbing to lung cancer which seemed, at one point, to be in remission, but sadly returned. Jansch played a memorable show at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Interviews and rare archive footage weave together performances from a landmark multi-artist concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London, celebrating the songs and artistry of the great folk-blues ...

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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.

July 1, 2020 • Piedmont blues and old time music of Americans Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and Aunt Samantha Bumgarner were all early influences on this episode's Scottish singers and guitarists.

No score yet, be the first to add. In an inebriated interview with Rick McGrath in 1970, Bert Jansch, a 26-year-old guitarist busy with British folk compatriots Pentangle, reclaimed folk dogma: "We ...

At the same time as Leader was using his home as a recording studio, Joe Meek was doing exactly the same thing – due east, at 304 Holloway Road, a relaxed 15-minute walk from North Villas. It is ...