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 ...

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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.

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 ...

"As much of a great guitar player as Jimi Hendrix was, Bert Jansch is the same thing for acoustic guitar ... and my favorite." -- Neil Young Advertisement Article continues below this ad Given the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Pentangle’s Jacqui McShee as well as Robert Plant, Bernard Butler and Sam Lee were among stellar acts celebrating the late musician in impressive style The lineup was remarkable, with rock and folk ...

Scottish folk guitarist Bert Jansch, an influence and inspiration for a generation of rock guitarists, has died at the age of 67. The musician was a founding member of the group Pentangle with whom he ...