Influential Guitarist Bert Jansch Has Passed Away
A sad day for the music world.
He may not have had a household name, but Bert Jansch was an incredibly influential guitarist who has passed away of lung cancer at 67-years-old.
Bert was an influence on many well-known artists, including Nick Drake and Devandra Banhart. He was even ripped off by Jimmy Page, who used Bert's arrangement for the song Blackwaterside on the track Black Mountain Side (from Led Zeppelin's debut album).
More than anything else,
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