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Bert Jansch: The Black Swan

Graeme Thomson, The Word, October 2006

THE PROBLEM with so many virtuoso musicians is that their technical skill impedes the act of communication: it becomes the focus of all the attention, and thus ultimately an obstacle to be circumnavigated if any sort of emotional connection is to be made.

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