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Bert and my Book

Colin Harper, Irish Times, The, 1 September 2000

CURRENTLY HOT on the heels of Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Cash as an individualist icon of 20th Century music – name-dropped as an influence by an increasing array of division one guitar heroes in folk, blues and rock – Bert Jansch is just about as unassuming and low-key as one could possibly be, in any walk of life.

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