The original group formed in 1967. John Renbourn and Bert Jansch were already popular musicians on the British folk scene, with several solo albums each and a duet LP, Bert and John. Their use of complex inter-dependent guitar parts, referred to as "folk baroque", had become a distinctive characteristic of their music. They also shared a house in St John's Wood, London. Jacqui McShee had begun as an (unpaid) "floor singer" in several of the London folk clubs, and then, by 1965, ran a folk club at the Red Lion in Sutton, Surrey, establishing a friendship with Jansch and Renbourn when they played there.
Although nominally a 'folk' group, the members shared catholic tastes
and influences. McShee had a grounding in traditional music, Cox and
Thompson a love of jazz, Renbourn a growing interest in early music, and Jansch a taste for blues and contemporaries such as Bob Dylan.
The Pentangle song House Carpenter (1970) is from the album Basket of Light, which was originally released in 1969. Video removed by Youtube.
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