Shane O’Mara and Jac Tonks – Sorrow Hides The Longing To Be Free – The Songs of Bert Jansch

Long before his passing Bert Jansch was famed as an inspiration to acolytes as gifted in their own rights as Paul Simon, Jimmy Page, Neil Young, Donovan, Mike Oldfield, Nick Drake and Johnny Marr. Add to that list guitar virtuoso Shane O’Mara, who with singer Jac Tonks channels the great Scottish folk stylist’s lyrical melodies and ethereal chord voicings like an uncanny mist forever suspended beyond the madness of modern times.

With a deft balance of masterful technique and disarming empathy the duo honours the maestro’s definitive traditional arrangements and songs of passionate longing like they’ve lived in those same haunted woods all their lives.