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 ...

Archie Fisher was playing a gig in Cardiff a few weeks ago when three young Bert Jansch aficionados turned up to hear the man who taught Jansch to play the guitar. Speaking to them between songs ...

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 ...

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 ...