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 ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - A host of musicians headed by Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant on Tuesday night celebrated the life and work of Bert Jansch, the late Scottish guitarist who influenced generations of ...

Led Zeppelin had a reputation for lifting music that didn’t belong to them, and one guitarist insinuated that Jimmy Page felt guilty about it. Page idolized Bert Jansch, a Scottish folk musician. He ...

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 ...

Scottish-born singer-songwriter Bert Jansch, a guitarist in the '60s folk-jazz outfit Pentangle and a highly influential solo artist, died Wednesday in a London hospice after a long battle with cancer ...

The Scottish acoustic-guitar legend Bert Jansch—pronounced jansh—died today, at the age of sixty-seven, after a long battle with lung cancer. He released his first solo record, “Bert Jansch,” in 1965.

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 ...