What is it with folkies and birds? Songs hymning birds and flight are legion in pop, but most merely use our winged friends as a symbol of longing and liberty. Folk singers, meanwhile, like to get ...

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 ...

' I remember asking Bert, 'When you were doing it, did you know that you were like … heavy? Heavier than all those bands that were heavy? He nodded this thoroughly appropriate nod and passed me a ...

This October it will have been five years since the guitarist Bert Jansch died of lung cancer at the age of 67 in a Hampstead hospice, and with him went a seismic presence on the British folk scene.

I saw Bert Jansch in 1991, playing to about 25 people at Coatbridge College ("Legendary folk guitarist Bert Jansch dies, aged 67", The Herald, October 6). He was coming out of his “lost decade”. I ...

Bert Jansch was a musician whose reputation went before him. Guitarists heard about him on the grapevine and checked him out. He was required listening for anybody interested in any way in the sounds ...

A look back at the innovative and influential career of Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch. Brilliant Guitarist Bert Jansch: An Appreciation Bert Jansch, one of the central figures of the 1960s and ...