{"id":7057,"date":"2025-06-06T13:09:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=7057"},"modified":"2025-06-06T13:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:14:58","slug":"issue-164-bert-jansch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=7057","title":{"rendered":"Issue #164 \u2013 Bert Jansch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BERT JANSCH<\/b><\/span>\u00a0remains\u00a0one of the most influential guitarists\u00a0of all time, his intricate fingerpicking style much imitated but never bettered. He was a founder member of Pentangle, the jazz-folk \u201csupergroup\u201d that transformed the music scene at the end\u00a0of the \u201960s.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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JOHNNIE JOHNSTONE<\/b><\/span> takes a deep dive into Jansch\u2019s solo \u201970s work \u2013 the period in which he would go on to make some of his most memorable music<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Because of their success, over time the members of Pentangle had moved from the city into country homes in small rural parishes and by now were living at inconvenient distances from one another. John Renbourn was in Surrey and Jansch in the Sussex village of Ticehurst with his wife of three years, Heather Sewell. Sewell was more accustomed to country living and infinitely more suited to a life of domesticity than her wayfaring husband. For Jansch, the responsibilities involved in balancing his private and public lives made him ill at ease. He liked the country but could not do without the city. He missed the way things used to be, when he could just grab a few pints and chew the fat with friends across the road in the local. Jansch recalled this situation in\u00a0Comstock Lode\u00a0<\/i>fanzine in 1979: \u201cMy bohemian existence stopped. [John and I] would often end up after a Pentangle concert at Waterloo station, waiting for our trains at a dossers\u2019 pub called The Hole In The Wall, which sold ale at a shilling a pint. We\u2019d invariably end up talking to these amazing tramps, missing our trains and staying all night.\u201d It was a situation Janch articulated eloquently on \u2018When I Get Home\u2019, one of his best contributions to Reflection.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n