It is impossible to hear Scottish musician Bert Jansch's song "Needle of Death" and not be moved by its harrowing beauty. Just ask Neil Young, who attributes it as the source for "The Needle and the ...

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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 ...

Neil Young has confessed to taking a few plays directly from British folk guitarist Bert Jansch’s playbook–see how he jiggered Jansch’s “Needle of Death” into “The Needle and the Damage Done” on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Young compared Jansch's impact on the possibilities of the acoustic guitar as comparable to that of Jimi Hendrix's on the electric. Right up until his illness (he died after a struggle with lung ...