Davy Graham
Saturday afternoon.
Don't miss this chance to see a true legend in Moseley Park!
Originally Davy Graham, b. 22 November 1940, this virtuoso guitarist who is credited with sparking the folk-rock revolution in the UK in the 1960s.
He inspired and is credited as a guru to some of the top practitioners of the finger style acoustic guitar, such as Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Martin Carthy, Paul Simon and even Jimmy Page, and is best-known for his acoustic instrumental, Anji.
He introduced a different way of tuning a guitar called DADGAD. Its main attraction was that it allowed the guitarist more freedom to improvise in the treble while maintaining a solid underlying harmony and rhythm in the bass.
During the 1960s he released a string of eclectic albums with music from all around the world in all kinds of genres. Filmography The Servant, directed by Joseph Losey in 1963 portrays an uncredited Graham as a guitarist. Cain's Film, a short directed by Jamie Wadhawan in 1969, features Graham as himself, along with Alexander Trocchi, William Burroughs, Feliks Topolski and Shawn Philips, also as themselves.
Graham is also credited as the composer.
Discography - 3/4 AD (EP) (1961) -
From a London Hotenanny (EP)(*) (1963) -
The Guitar Player (1963) -
Folk, Blues and Beyond (1964) -
Midnight Man (1966) -
After Hours (**) (1967) -
Large as Life and Twice as Natural (1968) -
Hat (1969) -
Holly Kaleidoscope (1970) -
Goddington Boundary (1970) -
All that Moody (1976) -
The Complete Guitarist (1978) -
Dance for Two People (1979) -
The Guitar Player ... Plus (1996) -
Playing in the Traffic (* The Thameside Four and Davy Graham) (** Issued in 1997, recorded at Hull University)
Collaboration: Shirley Collins and Davy Graham. - Folk Roots, New Routes (1965)
