(Guitar, singer-songwriter, b. 1949) The career of this brilliant guitarist and songwriter began in the 1960s with Fairport Convention. Solo releases throughout the 1970s and 1980s – especially I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight (1974), with then-wife Linda – cemented a reputation for an influential guitar style equally at home in folky acoustic and electric settings. During the 1990s, retrospectives like Watching The Dark (1993) and new albums like ...
Folk music in Britain has an erratic history, susceptible to the fickle fates of fashion and image and almost eradicated completely by the apathy of the people whose culture it represents. Yet a hugely colourful treasure chest of music and traditions survives in the network of folk clubs that still exist up and down the country. British folk clubs have little in common with the rest of the entertainment industry. Elsewhere, ...
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