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 ...

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 ...

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 in Regent's Park, 1966. Bert Jansch recorded his self-titled first album in 1965 in his producer's home. It went on to sell a reported 150,000 copies and included a striking original about ...

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 ...

A new career-spanning Bert Jansch 'best of' collection called Just A Simple Soul has been announced for October 26. Compiled by Bernard Butler and the Bert Jansch estate, it draws from all eras of ...

Guitarist, singer and songwriter Bert Jansch, who defined the English folk music movement with his solo performances and his work with the Pentangle, died Wednesday, Oct. 5, of lung cancer in a North ...