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John Renbourn 1944-2015
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John Renbourn 1944-2015
English guitarist known for his light-fingered fusion of classical, folk, blues and jazz and for his work with the group the Pentangle
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Mr. Renbourn was both an antiquarian and an innovator — part of a generation of British and American guitar virtuosos who in the 1950s and ’60s reached deeply into traditions but were not bound by them.
As early as the 1960s, Mr. Renbourn delved with scholarly dedication into medieval and Renaissance music; his “Complete Anthology of Medieval and Renaissance Music for Guitar.” a sheet-music collection of 28 pieces, was published in 1995.
He learned British folk songs and sang them in an amiable tenor, and he was drawn to ragtime and the blues, particularly the fingerpicking complexity of early rural blues.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/arts/music/
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