Bert Jansch

...in 1974 at the height of the finger-picking guitar movement. Evans is a minor figure on a scene dominated by Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, and others, and this is about all the recordings of his currently available. However, this is quite an...

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...over indie and made it freakier, adding a spaced-out acid-rock sensibility that took them to some unexplored middle ground between Bert Jansch and Hawkwind. When I interviewed Devendra Banhart around that time, Banhart made a big point...

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...wrote the score to Babel, and atmospheric rock bands such as Talk Talk and Sigur Ros, while incorporating elements of English folk and Bert Jansch, especially the song "Wheatfields" ("but if you say that people get scared and imagine people...

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Herbert Jansch (born 3 November 1943), known as Bert Jansch, is a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle . He was born in Glasgow and, in the 1960s, he was heavily influenced by the guitarist Davey Graham and folk...

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Paul Alcantara opened a folk club after despairing of a lack of live venues You first: Paul Alcantara and Guy Simpson asked Bert Jansch (above), founder member of Pentangle, to play at the opening night of the Kalamazoo Klub Fifteen...

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...hard- left politics, Topic has often been tarred with a certain ideological correctness, especially recently, as the likes of guitarist Bert Jansch and the delicate Vashti Bunyan, who would not have been touched with a barge pole back in the...

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...the nation's funny bone. Daniel Kitson: We Are Gathered Here (Sept 21) Possibly the closest thing comedy has to the folk guitarist Bert Jansch: he follows his own path, sees little need to involve himself in the trappings of the industry and...

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The Queen's Hall's own programme ( www.thequeenshall.net) offers folk supergroups Blazin' Fiddles and Capercaillie, veteran guitarist Bert Jansch, singer-songwriter Eric Bogle on his final UK tour, jazz diva Barb Jungr's Tell It Like It Is...

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...now, though, we were talking electronics, not music - a fascinating topic, but inappropriate given the circs. I mean, you wouldn't get Bert Jansch, Armatrading's last guest, hiding his technique behind a blizzard of trickery. That would be...

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...the tremulous "Cavatina" on the soundtrack to The Deer Hunter? Bonnie Raitt, the flame-haired country singer of "Love Has no Pride"? Bert Jansch, the rumpled veteran folkie of Pentangle, the late-1960s band? And what the hell is Russell...

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