Jimmy Page ripped off his arrangement of the traditional folk song “Blackwaterside” on Led Zeppelin‘s debut. Neil Young used his song “Needle Of Death,” as the template for his own 1974 wasteland epic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bert Jansch's approach to a traditional folk song is on full display in this recording of "Blackwaterside," made during a show at London's 12 Bar and originally released in 1995. It's an approach the ...

Cult singer-songwriters can be assured mythic status if one of two things applies: 1) They have died before their time, preferably under mysterious circumstances involving horse tranquilizers and/or ...

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 ...

Jimmy Page and Neil Young both sing the praises of the late, influential folk guitarist. British folk musician Bert Jansch died in October 2011, about 10 months after recording this interview with ...

Bert Jansch, one of the most influential, but under rewarded, guitarist of the past four decades, has died of lung cancer at age 67. Jansch achieved his widest exposure as guitarist for Pentangle, a ...

I don't know how Bert Jansch felt about being called a folk musician, but the term seems inadequate for a musician of his daring, range and technique. Jansch, who died Wednesday in London at 67, ...

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 ...