Would you say that Bert was a significant influence on your own playing? “That first album [Bert Jansch, 1965] changed my life.It made me realise what can be done with one man and one guitar.

Would you say that Bert was a significant influence on your own playing? “That first album [Bert Jansch, 1965] changed my ...

Bert Jansch influenced a range of musicians from Jimmy Page, who took a Jansch folk song and turned it into a Led Zeppelin rocker, to Paul Simon, who learned from the Scottish-born guitarist and ...

Bert Jansch should be accustomed to younger musicians standing in awe of him. After all, it was 40 years ago when no less than Donovan paid homage to the folk guitarist-singer with the songs ...

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 ...

Bert Jansch, a revered, enigmatic Scottish singer-guitarist whose effect on a host of prominent musicians eclipsed his own fame, has died. He was 67. Jansch died Wednesday at a hospital in London ...

Bert’s third album (Jack Orion, 1966), and the Jansch/Renbourn collaborative album, Bert And John (also 1966), marked a fusion of the friends’ guitar styles, born out of the pair’s jamming ...

Bert Jansch, the veteran acoustic musician and inspiration to a generation of rock axemen, gives the music writer and guitar neophyte Will Hodgkinson some tips on how to become a legend.

He was quiet, modest, uncomfortable in the spotlight — not looking for No. 1 hits or commercial ditties. But when Bert Jansch picked up an acoustic guitar, people listened, often spellbound by ...

Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and that whole crew of British musicians will always be an important part of my life. Maybe their music's not for everybody — there's something bittersweet about it.