Any article about Bert Jansch is usually limited to boy-speak about technical aspects of guitar playing: “unusual chord voicings” and “arpeggiated finger-picking”. I don't know what those phrases mean, but I've heard what they sound like and it's beautiful. Listen to last week's album pick Cruel Sister, if you haven't already.
Jansch certainly deserves his status as a musical genius, but he also should be duly noted for that princely casualness, that floppy hair, that Scottish voice and intense gaze of a young handsome folk man.
But what do you think?