Bert Jansch
One of Britain's greatest acoustic guitarists, Bert Jansch influenced Jimmy
Page, Johnny Marr and Nick Drake and remains an icon of the UK folk scene.
Raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, he started playing at his local club The Howff in
his teens, before roaming and rambling around Europe and learning his trade from
the likes of Martin Carthy, Ian Campbell and Anne Briggs. Settling in London in
the mid-1960s, he was central to the British folk boom, with his debut album
Bert Jansch (1965) becoming a seminal record of the time and producing the
protest song Do You Hear Me Now (later co...
