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    Posted: October 07 2011 at 04:15
Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Originally posted by Lizzy Lizzy wrote:

Not the best singer, but a fabulous musician.
RIP Bert
 
Then I guess you haven't heard many who sang in the tradition - Al Stewart, Roy Harper, Nick Drake for instance are  more the exception - check out Richard Thompson, Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick for comparison, i.e.  who were once called the finger-in-one-ear brigade. Or the lady folk vocalists, e.g.  the much praised recent release of the Unthanks represents the N.E English branch of new and old traditions of Anglo Celtic folk fused:

As a matter of fact, I have listened to every single one of those mentioned in your list, since folk is my main interest here. However, I still stand by my initial statement. If I don't consider him a good singer, that does not mean I don't acknowledge his overall musical talent. Quite the contrary. ;)
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I've been listening to Cruel Sister all day.
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Points: 3659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2011 at 12:31
Very sad. I was lucky enough to see him in Pentangle a few years. What a stunning performance!
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Points: 2226 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2011 at 09:34
His guitar mastery speaks for itself, but that voice - deep and pained yet soft and welcoming.  In my opinion, the ideal UK folk vocalist.....the whole of the Pentangle, really.  Fabulous instrumentalists and vocalists (did Terry sing?).
 
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Points: 12818 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2011 at 07:36
Originally posted by Lizzy Lizzy wrote:

Not the best singer, but a fabulous musician.
RIP Bert
 
Then I guess you haven't heard many who sang in the tradition - Al Stewart, Roy Harper, Nick Drake for instance are  more the exception - check out Richard Thompson, Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick for comparison, i.e.  who were once called the finger-in-one-ear brigade. Or the lady folk vocalists, e.g.  the much praised recent release of the Unthanks represents the N.E English branch of new and old traditions of Anglo Celtic folk fused:
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/05/pentangle-bert-jansch-dies
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/10/05/141076128/guitarist-bert-jansch-is-dead-at-67?sc=fb&cc=fmp
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Not the best singer, but a fabulous musician.
RIP Bert
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One of the true greats - time to dig out some of my old Pentangle albums.
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RIP Bert - a truly great musician who will be sadly missed! 

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Scottish singer-guitarist Bert Jansch dies at 67.

Mr.Jansch died of lung cancer Wednesday,was seriously a true virtuoso,founder of the band Pentangle,an innovator of the time,hailed by the likes of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page;Canadian rocker Neil Young and Johnny Marr of the Smiths as a force to be reckoned with,and learned from.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/10/british-folk-guitarist-bert-jansch-dies-at-67.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/05/bert-jansch?newsfeed=true

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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 14:56
Another of the greats gone, RIP.

We seem to have had rather a lot of RIP threads this year.
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Pentangle was a relative minor period for  the one of Britiain's master guitarists of the last 50 years. Especially  during the late 60's when Jansch produced a number of excellent solo albums for the Transatlantic label.
 
Influential, imitated? - absolutely!. Both by the folk fraternity in the UK and numerous rock guitarists, not least Jimmy Page who lifted Jansch's arrangement of the traditional folk song Blackwater Side/Slide for the first Led Zeppelin album (and then claimed composership - as Paul Simon had also done of Martin Carthy's arrangement of the traditional tune Scarborough Fair). Ironically Steve Morse on his first tribute album, cites Jimmy page in the liner notes while seemingly unbenown to him, the associated tune he plays (attributing Page and LZ)  echoes Bert Jansch!!
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Points: 4119 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 11:29
Tear in the eye when i found out, One my all time Fav artist's    Love his music to bits   R.I.P  Bert .Cry
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 10:42
Obituary by the BBC

Couldn't have put it better myself - will listen to 1974's LA Turnaround this evening...

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Points: 4 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 09:47
He was only on tour recently with Neil Young, what a double bill that must've been.  Incredible guitarist, lovely man and composer of Needle Of Death, just about that the only anti-drugs song that ever gave one pause for thought, such is the rawness of the emotion contained in it.
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Points: 24922 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 08:43
Another great musician passed away.
 
R.I.P.
 
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Points: 2555 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 08:37
Wait! Seriously? F**k! The death has a lot of work again.Unhappy R.I.P. He was a great artist. 

Edited by Prog Geo - October 05 2011 at 08:38
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Points: 5210 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 08:27
My love of the acoustic guitar came almost directly from Jimmy Page, and much of the best of Jimmy's acoustic sound came directly from Bert Jansch. "Black Mountainside" is really a cover of a Jansch song, with some modifications. When I discovered the Pentangle it was like a flash of brilliance that I'd been looking for my whole life. I've gotten some of Bert's solo stuff, and he truly was a great ambassador of the instrument.
 
RIP, thanks for the music.
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Points: 22774 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 07:13
That's sad. I was actually just given a recommendation to listen to The Pentangle.
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