Bert Jansch

Bert Jansch remembered: the songs (2) Needle of Death

See all items covering the Bert Jansch commemoration at this link: https://www.salutlive.com/bert-jansch/ Colin Randall writes: This is my own offering to our mini-series on specific Bert Jansch tracks. It's a song that hurt to hear, hurt to play, chronicling yet... Read more →


Bert Jansch remembered. The songs: (1) Let me Sing

See all items covering the Bert Jansch commemoration at this link: https://www.salutlive.com/bert-jansch/ Let me introduce a new mini-series intended as apart of Salut! Live's coverage of what would have been the 80th birthday of Bert Jansch, a hero of acoustic... Read more →


Bert Jansch remembered: the interview (2) honouring 'five decades of music'

This is the second and final part of an interview with Bert Jansch’s sister-in-law, Karen Kidson, who also manages the Bert Jansch Foundation, ahead of the Bert Jansch 80th birthday concert at London’s Royal Festival Hall in November. The interviewer... Read more →


Bert Jansch remembered: the interview (1) 'Pentangle could have been as big as Fleetwood Mac'

For a time, Bert Jansch made it OK to like folk. Unless memory is fooling me, here was a lugubrious, brooding, occasionally difficult figure as cool as anyone in rock. He wrote songs that suited the age and played guitar... Read more →


Bert Jansch: thoughts on a departed giant of acoustic music

July 2022: no pressing reason to update what I wrote in 2011. No looming anniversary I'm aware of, no hitherto unknown detail. It's just that every so often, I think about Bert Jansch, the exceptional music he made and the... Read more →