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Folk History Lesson - Davey Graham - True Godfather of Psychedelic Music

Intro: 00:00 Main Section: 03:40 David Davey Michael Gordon Graham lived from 26 November 1940 to 15 December 2008, was a British guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s British folk revival. He inspired many famous practitioners of the fingerstyle acoustic guitar such as Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Martin Carthy, Ralph McTell, Wizz Jones, John Martyn, Nick Drake, Ritchie Blackmore, and Paul Simon, as well as folk rock bands such as Fairport Convention and Pentangle. Jimmy Page based his solo "White Summer" on Graham's "She Moved Through the Fair". Graham is probably best known for his acoustic instrumental, "Anji" and for popularizing D-A-D-G-A-D tuning. One of Graham's lasting legacies is the D D-A-D-G-A-D (Open Dsus4) guitar tuning, which he popularised in the early 1960s. While travelling in Morocco, he developed the tuning so he could better play along with and translate the traditional oud music he heard to guitar. Graham then went on to experiment playing traditional folk pieces in D-A-D-G-A-D tuning, often incorporating Indian and Middle Eastern scales and melodies. A good example is his arrangement of the traditional air She Moved Through the Fair, which he recorded live at the Troubadour in Earl's Court in 1964. The tuning provides freedom to improvise in the treble, while maintaining a solid underlying harmony and rhythm in the bass—though it restricts the number of readily playable keys. While guitarists used "non-standard" or "non-classical" tunings before this (e.g., open E and open G in common use by blues and slide guitar players) D-A-D-G-A-D introduced a new "standard" tuning. Many guitarists now use the tuning, especially in folk and world music. During the 1960s, Graham released a string of albums of music from all around the world in many genres. 1964's Folk, Blues and Beyond and the following year's collaboration with the folk singer Shirley Collins, Folk Roots, New Routes, are frequently cited among his most influential album releases. The second album called Folk Blues and Beyond, mixes blues with an elaborate guitar backing to the traditional song Seven Gypsies (played in a style that was to be known as "folk baroque"), as well as excursions into jazz and Moroccan themes. The third album, Folk Roots, New Routes, was recorded with the folk singer Shirley Collins, and mixed folk songs such as Nottamun Town with jazz-influenced tracks, from Thelonious Monk's Blue Monk to Bobby Timmons's Grooveyard. But admiration for the jazz world lifestyle had a devastating effect on Graham, who began to inject heroin and registered himself as a drug addict. According to Carthy, "he was a lovely man, but he was in thrall to jazz players like Charlie Parker, and the whole drug culture. And though there was very little heroin on the British folk scene, he deliberately became a junkie. I remember Alexis Korner's fury when he found out." His continuous touring of the world as a beat mystic traveller, picking up and then recording different styles of music for the guitar, has resulted in many musicians crediting him with founding world music. However, though Graham recorded in a variety of genres and loved to play the oud, he was no purist, absorbing all his influences into his own ever-expanding conception of the possibilities of guitar music. Source of Basic Info: Wikipedia Source of Article The Guardian Source of Video: BBC Folk Roots & New Routes No copyright infringement intended. The purpose of creating this channel is only for music and promotion! I think that everybody has an ear for music, but he/she searches the kind of music that matches to him/her!! Please enjoy and let the music play! All the uploads on this channel are for the promotional purposes only, and are uploaded after release! If you are label manager or artist and you don't want your material featured on the channel please contact me it will be removed inside 24h!