tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post5131854780360883044..comments2023-11-05T09:33:34.696+00:00Comments on The 'Spill: Davey Graham 1940-2008Blimpyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03062521891682719767noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-83909139095065756262008-12-19T19:33:00.000+00:002008-12-19T19:33:00.000+00:00Just to echo the feeling already expressed here. I...Just to echo the feeling already expressed here. I spent my childhood listening to my dad play Anji/Angie and I was really sad to hear the news. A great guitarist.bethnoirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17383069246571134707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-36965865398777817012008-12-18T20:51:00.000+00:002008-12-18T20:51:00.000+00:00tfd/Mnemonic - superb, thanks for the recommendati...tfd/Mnemonic - superb, thanks for the recommendations - I'll definitely follow it all up.May1366https://www.blogger.com/profile/16866631487529467391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-73327553025648132932008-12-18T17:34:00.000+00:002008-12-18T17:34:00.000+00:00A fantasic player, one of the real "influential pl...A fantasic player, one of the real "influential players", unlike some of the other names that get bandied around.<BR/><BR/>I still can't play <I>"Anji"</I> after years of trying.Carolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17068889968857575433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-82961896924496006972008-12-18T09:41:00.000+00:002008-12-18T09:41:00.000+00:00Oh, I'll put that one on...Oh, I'll put that one on...treefrogdemonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08668655760960757921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-85685678719553410412008-12-18T09:37:00.000+00:002008-12-18T09:37:00.000+00:00May, if you find a copy of Davy's Folk, Blues and ...May, if you find a copy of Davy's Folk, Blues and Beyond (he spells his name either way) and I think it was rereleased a few years back, he does a cover of Mingus's "Better Git It In Your Soul". I put it on my last RR social compilation if DsD ever made you a copy. (I lost track of who got copies of what qute early on that evening.)<BR/><BR/>I saw him do it live in the mid-sixties while he was still on peak form and couldn't believe my ears.Mnemonichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10632549982981770230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-32852462162204531392008-12-18T09:28:00.000+00:002008-12-18T09:28:00.000+00:00Thanks, Shiv - I'll have a look for that book. And...Thanks, Shiv - I'll have a look for that book. And May, I picked that tune for that very purpose, so I'm glad it worked! I was surprised to find that I only had two Davey albums in my collection and neither had Anji, so that's why I posted the Bert Jansch version.<BR/><BR/>Davey's father was from Skye and his mother from Guyana, so you get your musical fusion right there.treefrogdemonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08668655760960757921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-50109576433075070612008-12-18T09:07:00.000+00:002008-12-18T09:07:00.000+00:00What little I know of Davey Graham (basically a sn...What little I know of Davey Graham (basically a snippet from the Folk Britannia TV series) made me want to know more and, in a year when we've lost so many people whose music has figured massively in my life, I felt something of the same sadness at the news of Davey's death even though my relationship with his music is still pending, if that makes sense. <BR/><BR/>Actually what makes it make sense is this version of Blue Monk. We've had a few chats about routes from other music into jazz and hip-hop, and if there's ever a track that's likely to stimulate my listening of this branch of folk music to a few notches above its current 'lazy' status (esp. when you consider that I've metaphorically had that Bert Jansch in the back of my cab a couple of times from when I was a venue programmer), this is the tune.May1366https://www.blogger.com/profile/16866631487529467391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-48328949732365498052008-12-17T21:07:00.000+00:002008-12-17T21:07:00.000+00:00Thanks for this trib, tfd - my throwaway mention o...Thanks for this trib, tfd - my throwaway mention on the Festive 24 blog was in the hope that somebody else would do the rounding up of photos, birthdates etc. You were that soldier.<BR/><BR/>If you haven't read it, Will Hodgkinson's book "Guitar Man" is actually predicated by the author's desire to learn to play "Angie"/"Anji". He has some suitably bizarre encounters with Graham, whose behaviour is entirely befitting of a cult muso... (Colin Harper's Bert Jansch book has more of the same...)ShivSidecarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07667350769164091180noreply@blogger.com