Bert Jansch

Bert Jansch is a scotish songwriter who started to record as a solo artist in 1965 and became a member of the Folk Jazz band Pentangle before going solo again. He has a brillant Fingerstyle guitar technique combining different styles of folk and country techniques and he has a unique voice  He released over twenty records. There are 2 interesting compilations to get an overview of his work.  'An introduction to Bert Jansch' which regroups the 'Transatlantic recordings of the sixties and nineties and 'Three chord trick' on Virgin/Charisma which gives an overview of the 70's. If you like Fingerstyle  guitar music and wellcrafted songs try it out.

Man Erg wrote: Rosemary Lane and Nicola are my current favourite Bert Jansch albums. Check out John Renbourn,Jansch's collegue in Pentangle. There's a much more 'Eastern' influence in his playing.Similar in feel to Davy Graham.

Davy Graham another brillant guitar player. My alltime favourite DG composition is 'Anji'. I tried to play it for ages and I never quite got it right. BTW there are two nice versions of 'Anji' by Simon & Garfunkel one with and one without vocals.