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Drummer with Pentangle, the folk-rock group who found fame in the 1960s with their fusion of jazz, blues and traditional songs

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“Somebody said I was the ice queen, because I just didn’t move on stage – I was terrified!” The woman who became a prog star after being asked to lead the singing at anti-nuke marches

She’d had no plans for a life in music, but wound up working with some of the biggest names of the 60s folk resurgence

Louder

Pentangle drummer Terry Cox, who also played on David Bowie's Space Oddity, has died, aged 89

Drummer Terry Cox was part of the classic Pentangle line-up alongside Jacqui McShee, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and Danny Thompson

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“I didn’t know their tunes, but we played some Chuck Berry and reggae, then Paul McCartney said, ‘What are you doing for the next few years?’” How Laurence Juber went from winning a Grammy with Wings to landing a hit record with Harry Styles

The British guitar veteran explains what made George Harrison different, how he returned to Number 1 with Harry Styles after 25 years away, and why Wings’ Back to the Egg needs to be re-evaluated

Guitar World

He played a guitar held together by a belt, was admired by Keith Richards, covered by Springsteen and described by Bert Jansch as “the most underrated guitarist ever” – the life and times of a beatnik folk pioneer

Wizz Jones may not be a household name but he came out of the same scene as Eric Clapton and influenced everyone from Keith Richards to Thurston Moore

Guitar World

“Acts of daring support the contention that their label set them free to do whatever they pleased”: Pentangle’s exhaustive The Albums: 1968-1972 is a lavish celebration of folk’s first supergroup

Box set featuring their first six records is enhanced with out-takes, live tracks and solo material by Bert Jansch and John Renbourn

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‘He lived his whole life in that fire’: the tragic story of ‘lost’ singer Jackson C Frank

A school fire, a shooting and mental health issues plagued a man whose legacy is remembered in a new documentary

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Wizz Jones obituary

Guitarist, singer and songwriter who performed with John Renbourn, Bert Jansch and Ralph McTell

The Guardian - UK

A beginner's guide to progressive folk in 10 acts - it's not all 'hey nonny nonny', y'know

Folk and folk rock bands are responsible for some of the most progressive music ever made. Not only that, but they influenced the rock world as we know it

Louder

“At the end of a tour Bert said to his roadie, ‘Do you want a guitar? Take your pick.’ And the guy said, ‘Well, I’d like that Fylde...” Gordon Giltrap on why Bert Jansch changed his life – and how he ended up with the folk icon’s ’70s acoustic

It's no exaggeration to say that hearing Jansch forever changed Gordon Giltrap. Now that he owns Jansch's guitar, it has offered him a unique perspective on his hero...

Guitar World

Open G minor chords: 5 shapes you need to know

Tuned D G D G Bb D, open G minor will give you a fresh perspective on the instrument, and with it new chord shapes to learn

Guitar World

“All those riffs came out with the Mulecaster. An amazing instrument that weighs a ton but sounds utterly timeless and three dimensional”: Folk great John Smith on his life-changing Mulecaster experience and why the Quad Cortex isn’t just for metalheads

As the influential UK folk guitarist gears up to take his new album, The Living Kind, out on the road, he joins us to explain how a shift in his gear and writing process has had a profound effect on his music

Guitar World

“It shows how the founding five’s skills that first bewitched in the early 1970s didn’t fade in the slightest”: Pentangle’s Reunions clamshell box

Four-disc collection spans live appearances from 1982 to 2011

Louder

“It’s hard to deliver a gig to a chest of drawers in your bedroom. You worry about technique, then the recording can sound clinical”: How British acoustic great Clive Carroll tackled John Renbourn classics – and the psychological hurdles of home recording

Carroll’s new double-album, The Abbott, sees him perform the late John Renbourn’s work – he explains why and how he did it, and offers an in-depth guide to performing Renbourn’s masterpieces

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Pentangle got a bit of stick and still does... but music is about putting ideas together and understanding them, not making sounds you think are trendy”: Why John Renbourn always stood up to the purists

Kicked out of art school, he embarked on an accidental career in baroque prog and folk jazz - and regarded himself as a lucky winner

Guitar World

How to play acoustic blues in open D tuning

Open minds with open tunings can bring new shades to the blues, and in this acoustic piece inspired by Molly Tuttle and Jimmy Page, we bring bluegrass, blues and folk to the party

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