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Bert Jansch: The Venue, London

Mick Brown, The Guardian, 22 January 1981

WITH THE audience for folk music in a state of steady and seemingly irreversible decline, appearances by Bert Jansch seem to have become ever fewer and farther between. At the same time, Jansch has slipped quietly out of the orbit of mainstream recording: his records now appear, largely unheralded, on Kicking Mule — an enthusiast's label.

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