Bill Leader's good tradition of folk music production BBC News By Chris Long BBC News "I did the first sessions with Bert Jansch, Billy Connolly, Gerry Rafferty, Barbara Dickson. I never did their hit recordings though." Middleton's Bill Leader is modest about how much he has given to folk music.
Gig Review: The Staves & Lianne La Havas @ The Borderline Londonist For such a young and dainty presence she uses her guitar as though she's Bert Jansch. Her finger picking surpasses anything at the London Guitar Festival, but when combined with an immensely soulful voice it's clear La Havas is a performer par ...
Tyneham House - self-titled DOA It's all impossibly intimate and unhurried stuff, that as well as running with the suspected mutualised muses of The A. Lords and littlebow, also recalls the rural ambience – though not the jazzy virtuosity – of Bert Jansch's Avocet and the fragile ...
James Yorkston & The Athletes announce new album Fit4Talent Limited His first solo show was supporting Bert Jansch, his first tour was supporting John Martyn. After those heady heights he went on to sign to Domino and record his debut album in a damp soaked cottage in the Scottish Borders. Domino subsequently released ...
Steel yourself This is Cornwall The results were effective; an emotional hinterland somewhere between Bert Jansch and Leonard Cohen, John Fahey and Cliff 'Ukulele Ike' Edwards. His debut long player Fire Begot Ash garnered considerable praise in various quarters upon its release in ...
Velvet goldmine Irish Times His is an old soul, and it is endearing how often he relates his own superb, layered music back to others' work, for example Bert Jansch's Birthday Blues , which he views as something of a companion piece to Smoke Ring for My Halo .
Doug Jerebine The Quietus The attempted interweaving of lines and melodies invokes Richards, while there are certainly enough nods to the drone of Eastern-influenced folk music to suggest he had heard a song or two by Bert Jansch or Richard Thompson. But after a few listens you ...
Q&A: Will Sprott of The Mumlers Silicon Valley's Metro Pop Staples & Bert Jansch and my nine year old guitar student [are recent influences]. What did getting chosen for a Starbucks song of the week do for you guys? People started showing up at our shows really wired on caffeine and getting pissed off when ...
John Martyn: Three-Year Wake The Arts Desk Bert Jansch sounded even more doleful and lugubrious than usual; Ralph McTell, back from a “very long walk”, was clearly shaken. “I don't even know what's happened. We all thought that things were on the up, it's a real shock.
The Anti-Hit List for Jan. 28: Lana Del Rey's fresh spin Toronto Star Now mentioned in the same breath as acoustic-guitar masters Bert Jansch, John Martyn and Davy Graham, Chapman was/is equally capable of doing the straightforward singer-songwriter thing as well as diving into off-kilter, rock-ish fare, ...
