Bill Ashton
Senior Member
- Joined
- Sep 29, 2006
- Messages
- 4,435
- Reaction score
- 1,042
- Location
- North Central Massachusetts
- Guild Total
- 4
RIP Burt Jansch and Marv Tarplin
Jansch was a founding member of Pentangle, and an extrordinary acoustic guitar player.
Marv Tarplin was one of those R&B guitarists and writers behind the (early Supremes), Marvin Gaye, but most prominently Smokey Robinson, and toured with him until 2008.
I was "aware" of Jansch, but cannot say I followed him; when growing up in the 60's, I really didn't care for "soul music," but today I just love all those guitar backing bits...Traplin (and others) were just so tasty and played for the song.
Great loss to us both...
Jansch was a founding member of Pentangle, and an extrordinary acoustic guitar player.
Marv Tarplin was one of those R&B guitarists and writers behind the (early Supremes), Marvin Gaye, but most prominently Smokey Robinson, and toured with him until 2008.
I was "aware" of Jansch, but cannot say I followed him; when growing up in the 60's, I really didn't care for "soul music," but today I just love all those guitar backing bits...Traplin (and others) were just so tasty and played for the song.
Great loss to us both...
