See all items covering the Bert Jansch commemoration at this link: https://www.salutlive.com/bert-jansch/ John Clark, a son of Sunderland happily exiled in Spain, plays, writes and sings his own sings as well as covering those of others. He responded to our... Read more →
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 →
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 →
Another quick update, Oct 2023: Dave Swarbrick's widow Jill has firmly and correctly reminded me that the gorgeous music that so perfectly suits Richard Thompson's words for this song was composed by the mighty Swarb. Read her comment below, reproduced... Read more →
If you grew up when and where I grew up, folk dancing meant the White Heather Club, a BBC programme that ran off and on for 10 years from 1958. It was unbelievably corny and presented what I have seen... Read more →
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 →
