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 ...

When theartsdesk last caught up with Bert Jansch, it was April 1965 and he had just issued his eponymous debut album – a set which now, as it was then, is a benchmark take on what acoustic folk and ...

A look back at the innovative and influential career of Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch. Brilliant Guitarist Bert Jansch: An Appreciation Bert Jansch, one of the central figures of the 1960s and ...

The tension between traditional expression and modernist extrapolation has helped define popular music, and no performer has embodied that tension more fruitfully than Bert Jansch. A terrifying ...

Bert Jansch's percussive fingerpicking was rooted in traditional folk music, but he swung around melodies like a jazz musician, the rhythms swaying in his Scottish soul. Turns out that even skilled ...

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 recharmed artistic life of Bert Jansch, the ...

North Villas is a short street parallel to Camden Road, the main artery linking Camden Town to Holloway in north London. It’s off Camden Square, where Amy Winehouse lived and died. In August 1964, ...

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 ...

Johnny Marr was a longtime fan of the late Scottish folk musician and finger-picking virtuoso Bert Jansch, and the two met and worked together in the ’90s, with Marr playing guitar on Jansch’s 2000 ...