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The Scottish acoustic-guitar legend Bert Jansch—pronounced jansh—died today, at the age of sixty-seven, after a long battle with lung cancer. He released his first solo record, “Bert Jansch,” in 1965.

Dave Alvin alerted us via Facebook shortly ago that British guitar master Bert Jansch has died. Jansch, who along with his band Pentangle was at the forefront of the ’60s British folk movement, was 67 ...

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss just released a Bert Jansch cover “It Don’t Bother Me.” From the Scottish folk musician and Pentangle founding member, the track is reworked by the duo with deep ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Legendary Scottish acoustic guitarist Bert Jansch, one of the co-founders of English folk group Pentangle in the late ’60s, died of lung cancer Wednesday at ...

Robert Plant and Eric Clapton are two of the stars who will perform at a tribute concert for Bert Jansch, guitarist for the influential British folk-rock band Pentangle who died in 2011. The show will ...

One of the central figures of the British folk music scene of the 1960s and '70s has died. Bert Jansch influenced a range of musicians from Jimmy Page, who took a Jansch folk song and turned it into a ...

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 ...

Bert Jansch, a pioneering figure in the ’60s British folk revival who was sometimes known as “The British Bob Dylan,” died this morning at a north London hospital after a long battle with lung cancer.

This actually happened a few weeks ago, but I missed it: “Bert is sorry to announce that he has to undergo an urgent operation to deal with complications arising from his recent lung cancer. As a ...

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 ...