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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bert Jansch, a guitarist whose finger-picking style proved hugely influential within the 1960s British folk music revival and beyond, has died at age 67 of lung cancer, the Guardian reports. The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Legendary Scottish acoustic guitarist Bert Jansch, one of the co-founders of English folk group Pentangle in the late ’60s, died of lung cancer Wednesday at ...

One of the central figures of the British folk music scene of the 1960s and '70s has died. Bert Jansch influenced a range of musicians from Jimmy Page, who took a Jansch folk song and turned it into a ...

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 ...

This actually happened a few weeks ago, but I missed it: “Bert is sorry to announce that he has to undergo an urgent operation to deal with complications arising from his recent lung cancer. As a ...

Bert Jansch, a pioneering figure in the ’60s British folk revival who was sometimes known as “The British Bob Dylan,” died this morning at a north London hospital after a long battle with lung cancer.