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 ...

Bert Jansch seems like one of those mythical figures in popular music who usually disappear for long periods. Only Jansch, 66, has never really gone missing. Since recording a self-titled album in ...

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 ...

Guitarist, singer and songwriter Bert Jansch, who defined the English folk music movement with his solo performances and his work with the Pentangle, died Wednesday, Oct. 5, of lung cancer in a North ...

A celebration of the late Pentangle guitarist Bert Jansch will take place at London's Festival Hall on the South Bank on November 4. Jansch's former Pentangle compatriot, singer Jacqui McShee will ...

Bert Jansch in Regent's Park, 1966. Bert Jansch recorded his self-titled first album in 1965 in his producer's home. It went on to sell a reported 150,000 copies and included a striking original about ...

The Scottish guitarist met The Smiths guitarist in the late '90s, resulting in the album Crimson Moon. Here the duo revisits a Bert Jansch tune... Bert Jansch's percussive fingerpicking was rooted in ...

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have dropped new single “It Don’t Bother Me.” Their take on Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch‘s acoustic song will appear on their collaborative album Raise the Roof, ...

British folk guitarist-singer Bert Jansch’s renown is often defined by the influence he’s had. His praises have been sung so famously by figures from Jimmy Page and Neil Young to young acolytes such ...