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In this interview from Uncut Take 152 [January 2010 issue], Bert Jansch talks about his career as one of Britain's greatest guitarists, folk, blues and being a “26-pints-a-night man” In this interview ...

Masterly guitarist hated the limelight but influenced some of the greatest names in folk, pop and jazz Bert Jansch, who died on Thursday aged 67, was one of Britain's greatest folk guitarists, but had ...

"Put the guitar down for a moment," says Bert Jansch, in his firm but patient Edinburgh brogue, "and listen. You'll never get anywhere if you don't listen." We're in the guitar-lined living-room of ...

If there were ever a "musician's musician," it was Bert Jansch (1943-2011). In the late '60s, while America was in the midst of the psychedelic haze, there was a fascinating scene going on in England.

Bert’s third album (Jack Orion, 1966), and the Jansch/Renbourn collaborative album, Bert And John (also 1966), marked a fusion of the friends’ guitar styles, born out of the pair’s jamming, and of ...