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 ...

It's one thing when a 40-plus-year career wins over the respect and eventual contributions of a succeeding folk generation. That's part of the newly recharmed artistic life of Bert Jansch, the ...

"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 ...

LONDON (AP) — 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 ...