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Bert Jansch: One of the Roving Kind

Nancy Lewis, Fabulous, 13 November 1965

THE SCOTS Hoose is a pub in Cambridge Circus. But if you go upstairs any Tuesday evening, you might as well be a million miles from the centre of London. It's a smoke-filled crowded room up there, but it becomes strangely hushed when a young man picks up his guitar and begins to sing. His voice rings out clear as a bell, with a certain emotion in it that can't be ignored. This young man is Bert Jansch. He's a mate of Donovan's and, like Don, he's another... One of the Roving Kind

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