Influential folk guitarist Davy Graham died on Monday. The Guardian has a nice video tribute here, and obituary here.

The only time I saw him, in Oxford, he shambled on and managed maybe a couple of half-hearted numbers before shambling off again. He had something of a heroin problem at the time. Still, there you go…

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    Martin Adamson

    A great shame. There’s a great live recording from the late 60s of him and Danny Thompson playing Blue raga, starting off as an English folktune then moving into a full scale raga. Just stunning.

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