Davy Graham
Davy Graham was one of the most eclectic guitarists of the 1960s, and his mixture of folk, blues, jazz, Middle Eastern sounds, and Indian ragas was an important catalyst of the British folk scene. Like Sandy Bull and John Fahey -- two folk-based guitarists with a similar taste for genre-bending experimentation -- Graham could not be said to be a rock musician. But like Bull and Fahey, he shared the eagerness of the '60s psychedelic rockers to stretch out and incorporate unpredictable influences into his music. While he wasn't much of a singer, Graham's taste in material was broad and shrewd, encompassing blues, ragas, Joni Mitchell, Charles Mingus, and the famous instrumental "Anji," which Graham recorded in 1962, way before the more famous versions by Bert Jansch and Simon & Garfunkel. Besides cutting several albums of his own work in the 1960s with sympathetic, low-key rhythm sections, he also recorded with traditional folksinger Shirley Collins and British blues father Alexis Korner. Graham recorded only sporadically after the 1960s, although he performed with the renowned acoustic guitar wizards Stefan Grossman and Duck Baker.
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Discography
10 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Folk Roots, New Routes
Folk - Released by UMC-Decca on Jan 1, 1964
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The Guitar Player
Blues - Released by Sanctuary Records on Jan 1, 1963
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The Holly Kaleidoscope
Folk - Released by UMC-Decca on Jan 1, 1970
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Folk, Blues & Beyond
Folk - Released by UMC-Decca on Jan 1, 1964
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