The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
It's a rare thing for a cover version to become the definitive version of a song, but I think Davy Graham manages this feat with Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now
The non-bloggish blog (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
Now that Davy Graham is out gigging again, maybe it's time to salute another folk blues pioneer – one who unfortunately died in obscurity some years ago. I haven't been able to find any video clips on line of him...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
Arts & entertainment: Shirley Collins developed the quintessential English folk voice in the 1960s. Jude Rogers meets her
I dunno - what d'you think? (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
How many useful scales are there – or how many would be of interest to me? Modes are one set of scales that seem to get an inordinate amount of attention from fingerstyle guitar players (and others) these days. I guess it's their folky and archaic sound world. Arabic and other eastern scales have [...]
Eine Kleine Nichtmusik (Free subscription) | 10/28/2007
This gig was a strange experience. To give you the back story, Davy Graham has been a hero of mine since my big brother got a vinyl EP called 3/4 A.D. (I now have my own copy) . This contained, among other guitar instrumentals, one which would become one of the most famous of all time: Angi (sic - it was respelled with a "J" by some later imitator) . Graham's influence on British and other folk-rock...
Time Has Told Me (Free subscription) | 10/25/2007
Steve Young " Lonesome On'ry & Mean " brujo said... Hi, I am really enjoying some of the great music on your site Sandy Bull,Davy Graham etc and thought you may like this Steve Young best of I uploaded a while back,he wrote that beautiful song that Ian Matthews and the Eagles recorded (Seven Bridges Road) here is the link enjoy regards Brujo Download (w/coverart)
Time Has Told Me (Free subscription) | 07/07/2007
Vol. 1: Unearthing the Tradition 01. Rock Island Line - The Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group 02. Dirty Old Town - Ewan MacColl 03. Down In The Coal Mine - The Ian Campbell Folk Group 04. Kilbogie - Ray & Archie Fisher 05. Angi - Davy Graham 06. Colours - Donovan 07. Love Is Teasin' - Jean Redpath 08. I Am A Rover - The Watersons 09. The Two Magicians - A.L. Lloyd 10. The Lyke Wake Dirge - The Young Tradition...
wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 07/06/2007
Sometimes you need a break from the honk and skronk... Jimmy Giuffre has always been a favourite of mine, offering an interesting take on jazz improvisation that, in its understated way, anticipated and complemented much of the avant-garde's directions from the fifties onwards. I have mentioned before that first hit – Bert Stern's movie of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival 'Jazz on a Summer's Day,' which...
