Bert Jansch News

Ever since the 1960s, and the glory days of Davy Graham and the early Bert Jansch, the folk scene has provided the starting point for experimental acoustic guitarists who mixed traditional styles with jazz, classical, or global influences.

Rating: * * * * Damon Albarn has had the more visible profile outside of Blur - Gorillaz, his Mali Music album, The Good, The Bad and The Queen - but for the band's former guitarist Coxon The Spinning Top is his seventh solo outing and extends his interest in Anglofolk of the Nick Drake/Bert Jansch kind.

One of the most remarkable guitarists and singer-songwriters of his generation, Graham Coxon returns from the triumphant Blur reunion tour to produce a this special concert at the Barbican based around his recent critically acclaimed 7th solo album Spinning Top.

HE may be tired with the comparisons - and did his best to destroy them with this year's second album - but Scott Matthews is the nearest thing this country's got to a Jeff Buckley.

ONE of the best-loved female groups on the folk scene brings its very special arrangements of traditional and contemporary songs to Shammick Acoustic this Saturday.

You first: Paul Alcantara and Guy Simpson asked Bert Jansch , founder member of Pentangle, to play at the opening night of the Kalamazoo Klub enlarge Fifteen years ago, I was sitting in a cafe with a musician friend, Guy Simpson, lamenting that our leafy north London suburb, Crouch End, had no music venue where we could play.

Quirky indie folk artist Devendra Banhart ' s latest release What Will We Be - his label debut for Warner Brothers Records , was recorded in a sleepy Northern California town throughout the spring of 2009 and co-produced by Devendra and Paul Butler .

What Where When editor John Gregory speaks to Rod Clements about what we can expect from his solo show which will see him playing acoustic and slide guitar.

What Where When editor John Gregory speaks to Rod Clements about what we can expect from his solo show which will see him playing acoustic and slide guitar.

Wild West Wales are proud to present, Live At The Talbot Hotel. another great musical evening on Friday 14th August with Dave Sutherland here in Tregaron.

Wild West Wales are proud to present, Live At The Talbot Hotel. another great musical evening on Friday 14th August with Dave Sutherland here in Tregaron.

Did Led Zeppelin steal the majority of their first album from other sources? Over the years Led Zeppelin has been accused of borrowing music and lyrics from other artists, especially some of the greatest blues legends of all time.

Monsters of Folk could upset the purists. Elisa Bray reports on a change for a usually unassuming scene It's been a while since we had a new folk collective.

For many years, Lauren Dukoff has photographed close friend and musician Devendra Banhart and an extended, loose-knit international family of artists who share inspiration variously from folk, Tropicalia, a range of other musical influences and each other- often playing, recording and touring together.

Back in 2006 while Messers Blunt, Morrison and Nutini were making pop-folk fashionable, another group of apparently similar singer-songwriters like Tom Baxter, Teddy Thompson and Scott Matthews were serving up more intriguing, brooding fare.