Davey Graham
Dec. 18th, 2008 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustDavey Graham died on Monday. Until a few years ago, if I'd heard that, I'd have said that I didn't know he was still alive - he was one of the people I didn't really expect to survive the sixties. Yet over the last few years he re-emerged, fragile but still making music, so it seems hard to lose him now.
I never heard him play - and his music developed in directions I couldn't follow, the 'world music as jazz' flavour not being one I get much from. But his influence was everywhere, not to mention his composition Anji, the piece that every aspiring folk guitarist had to learn (and still does, it seems - just ask YouTube).
I'm out of time, and anyway I don't have the expertise to talk about why Davey Graham mattered so much: read the Guardian's obituary, and hear it from the people who know.
I never heard him play - and his music developed in directions I couldn't follow, the 'world music as jazz' flavour not being one I get much from. But his influence was everywhere, not to mention his composition Anji, the piece that every aspiring folk guitarist had to learn (and still does, it seems - just ask YouTube).
I'm out of time, and anyway I don't have the expertise to talk about why Davey Graham mattered so much: read the Guardian's obituary, and hear it from the people who know.
