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Hear An Unreleased Bert Jansch And Johnny Marr Song, 'It Don't Bother Me'

The Scottish guitarist met The Smiths guitarist in the late '90s, resulting in the album Crimson Moon. Here the duo revisits a Bert Jansch tune from 1965.
<em>Living In The Shadows, Part Two: On The Edge Of A Dream</em>, which collects Bert Jansch's post-2000s output, comes out April 28.

's percussive fingerpicking was rooted in traditional folk music, but he swung around melodies like a jazz musician, the rhythms swaying in his Scottish soul. Turns out that even skilled

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