Pentangle’s music never fit within well-defined musical categories. As its many-sided name suggests, the group incorporated elements of traditional British folk music, blues, jazz and ’60s psychedelic ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pentangle released six albums between 1968 and 1972, but the wealth of bonus material here expands this fine collection to a ...

LONDON — Guitarist-songwriter John Renbourn, who founded the folk group Pentangle, has died at his home in Hawick, Scotland. He was 70. Renbourn had been on tour with the guitarist and singer Wizz ...

Danny Thompson, acclaimed double-bass player for the influential British folk-rock group Pentangle, died on Tuesday, September 23, at age 86. According to a post on his social media pages, Thompson ...

Bert Jansch, a leading figure in the British folk revival of the 60s and one of the most respected musicians of his generation, has died of cancer aged 67. A founding member of Pentangle, Jansch was ...

John Renbourn was a central figure in the British folk revival of the 1960s and throughout his career he remained an abiding and exciting figure in the nation’s acoustic music scene. The course of his ...

‘Just listening to it made me feel drunk,’ said the great guitarist when he went back to his old Pentangle recordings. Pete Paphides pays tribute to a man who could play his instrument better than he ...

Pentangle, live in 1969. Left to right: John Renbourne, Danny Thompson, Jacqui McShee, Bert Jansch and Terry Cox Bert Jansch, Renbourne’s guitar playing foil in Pentangle, had in 1966 already issued a ...

In 1967 Jacqui McShee and John Renbourn, who had just formed a band, were in a train that had come to a stop on Hungerford Bridge. Renbourn pointed out at the Royal Festival Hall. “We’ll be playing ...

Band reunions are a troubling business. Why do they do it? What's the point? Nostalgia? Profit? Ego? Pride? A sense of unfinished business? And what is it that makes, say, the reunion of Shane ...