Bert Jansch dies aged 67
Post categories: Alt-Folk
| 12:16 UK time, Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Bert Jansch, the legendary Scottish acoustic guitarist, died this morning.
He came to prominence during the sixties folk revival, and as part of the jazz-folk supergroup Pentangle with another guitar maestro, John Renbourn. His distinctive technique of finger-picking and string bending won him admirers from Jimmy Page to Johnny Marr and has been hugely influential. As recently as 2010 he was touring with .
We have trawled the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scotland archive for this lovely clip of him playing his own composition, Running From ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, filmed at Glasgow's Old Fruitmarket during Celtic Connections in 2008.
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- ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News story
- ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Showcase - Mary Ann Kennedy Collection
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