Artist Name

Bert Jansch

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Popularity

39

Followers
90,128

Origin
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Glasgow,Scotland

Genre
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Folk

Style
Folk

Mood
Relaxed

Born

1943

Active
1965 to 2011

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Most Loved Tracks

Track	Last.FM Listens	Youtube views	Loves
Angie	170,354	300,946 views	5 users
Needle of Death	158,454		5 users
Courting Blues	92,451		4 users
Smokey River	67,149		4 users
Strolling Down the Highway	91,126		4 users
Blackwaterside		619,463 views	1 users
Dreams of Love	45,600		1 users
Toy Balloon (For Little Anna-Rebecca)			1 users

Music Video Links

Angie	Blackwaterside	Rosemary Lane
One for Jo	Moonshine

Artist Biography
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Herbert "Bert" Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s, as an acoustic guitarist, as well as a singer-songwriter. He recorded at least 25 albums and toured extensively from the 1960s to the 21st century.
Jansch was a leading figure in the British folk music revival of the 1960s, touring folk clubs and recording several solo albums, as well as collaborating with other musicians such as John Renbourn and Anne Briggs. In 1968, he co-founded the band Pentangle, touring and recording with them until their break-up in 1972. He then took a few years' break from music, returning in the late 1970s to work on a series of projects with other musicians. He joined a reformed Pentangle in the early 1980s and remained with them as they evolved through various changes of personnel until 1995. Until his death, Jansch continued to work as a solo artist.
Jansch's work influenced such artists as Al Stewart, Paul Simon, Johnny Marr, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Bernard Butler, Jimmy Page, Nick Drake, Graham Coxon, Donovan, Neil Young, Fleet Foxes, Devendra Banhart Neil Halstead, and Roy Harper.
Jansch received two Lifetime Achievement Awards at the BBC Folk Awards: one, in 2001, for his solo achievements and the other, in 2007, as a member of Pentangle.