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Jansch digs back into tradition

Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 16 July 1966

THE BALLAD the young man sang was long but the audience hung on every word. In his own individual way he managed to project some of the ballad's atmosphere of doom and destruction and when he finished there was a moment of almost stunned silence before the applause.

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