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Nick Dempsey Nick Dempsey | 12:16 UK time, Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Bert Jansch, the legendary Scottish acoustic guitarist, died this morning.

He came to prominence during the sixties folk revival, and as part of the jazz-folk supergroup Pentangle with another guitar maestro, John Renbourn. His distinctive technique of finger-picking and string bending won him admirers from Jimmy Page to Johnny Marr and has been hugely influential. As recently as 2010 he was touring with .

We have trawled the 91Èȱ¬ Scotland archive for this lovely clip of him playing his own composition, Running From 91Èȱ¬, filmed at Glasgow's Old Fruitmarket during Celtic Connections in 2008.



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