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Thursday, March 26, 2015
John Renbourn
Acoustic guitarist and co-founder of Pentangle -- via the Belfast Telegraph. Like his longtime collaborator Bert Jansch, Renbourne revived and built upon traditional musics of all kinds, pointing the way forward for the evolution of acoustic music and other genres, including prog rock, bluegrass, and the singer-songwriter movement.
