Bert Jansch

[calimac]

Also died on Wednesday. His work was more meaningful to me and more appealing to my aesthetic tastes than that of certain more famous computer moguls who departed on the same day. Here's some of it:

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Not much of a singer, maybe, but what a guitarist.

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[19-crows.livejournal.com]

Dave Nee posted links to some YouTube vids of Pentangle on his Facebook and I spent a happy hour yesterday finding more. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy their music. I was much more aware of the singer (whose name I can't remember) because I love that kind of soprano voice, and took the guitar playing for granted. It's been interesting to listen with fresh ears.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Jacqui McShee. With her and Jansch and Renbourn, Pentangle was quite the group.