Bert Jansch's cancer comeback

How does a guitar legend recover from cancer? By going on tour with Neil Young. Will Hodgkinson meets Bert JanschIn June last year, a routine visit to the dentist led to the revelation that Bert Jansch had a golf ball-sized tumour on one of his lungs. "I went to the dentist on Tuesday. I was told that I had cancer on Thursday," says Jansch, a quietly spoken Scot whose virtuosic acoustic guitar-playing has influenced everyone from Jimmy Page to Johnny Marr."That evening, I went to the Mojos to gi...

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