Bert Jansch helped invent the fingerstyle vocabulary of British folk-baroque guitar, drawing on blues players and fellow folk guitarist Davy Graham to develop a percussive, harmonically dense picking style that other guitarists studied like a text — Jimmy Page called himself "obsessed" with Jansch's first record. His stark 1965 debut, including the anti-drug lament "Needle of Death," set a template of intimate, unadorned folk confession carried entirely on the guitar. Nick Drake was an open admirer, learning directly from Jansch's records and covering his songs.

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Needle of DeathBert Jansch