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Davey Graham

A Madman’s Approach To Music And Why Can't Music Be Like A Tree?

by Duncan Heining
March 18, 2015

"Art alone makes life possible." --Joseph Beuys. The Glasgow Improvisers' Orchestra is unique. It's an over-used word, I know, but in this case fully justified. GIO are unique in so many ways--in the way they formed, the way they make decisions, in their make-up, how they work and most importantly how they sound. They ...

Indigo Kid: Indigo Kid

by Bruce Lindsay
April 21, 2012

Indigo Kid, the eponymous debut from this UK-based quartet, is a slow burner. At first, it seems pleasant enough: strongly melodic and musically tight, with well-arranged tunes. But with each additional play the melodies get stronger and the interplay between the guitar and tenor saxophone reveals more and more depth. Third or fourth time around, the ...

David Bixler and Arturo O'Farrill: The Auction Project

by Bruce Lindsay
September 17, 2010

Altoist and composer David Bixler leads The Auction Project, with Grammy-winning pianist Arturo O'Farrill, who has described this album as being “very much about colliding cultures." This may slightly overstate things but the album does represent what is, for jazz, a rather unusual meeting of cultures. Half of The Auction Project is devoted ...

Irish Reels, Jigs, Hornpipes, and Airs

By Davey Graham

Label: Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop
Released: 2009
Track listing: The Galtee Hunt; Medley: The West Wind/The Blackbird; The Sunny Bank; Lagan Love; Medley: Old Hag You Have Killed Me/The Hag With Money; Hewlett; Irish Washerwoman; Leaving Brittany Going To Ireland; The March of the King of Laois; Shebeg an Shemor; The Fisherman's Lilt; Medley: Carrickfergus/The Water is Wide; Miss McLeod's Reel; The Donegal Pilgrim; Boys From Blue Hill; Mawgan Magan.

The Complete Guitarist

By Davey Graham

Label: Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop
Released: 2009
Track listing: Medley: Lord Mayo & Lord Inchinquin; Lashtal's Room; Ein Fiene Burg; The Road to Lisdoonvana; Renaissance Piece; Hardiman the Fiddler; Sarah; Frieze Britches; Blues for Gino; The Hunter's Purse; Prelude From the Suite In D Minor; Fairies' Hornpipe; Forty-Ton Parachute; The Gold Ring; Down Ampney; Banish Misfortune.

Davey Graham: The Complete Guitarist

by David Rickert
October 17, 2009

Davey Graham never found a style of guitar playing that he didn't want to master. In fact, he was such a perfectionist that he recorded infrequently, preferring not to commit any tunes to wax until he had thoroughly explored all the avenues that each tune had to offer. From ragas to ragtime, Graham did it all, ...

Davey Graham / Dave Evans / Duck Baker / Dan Ar Bras: Irish Reels, Jigs, Hornpipes, and Airs

by David Rickert
August 7, 2009

Irish Reels, Jigs, Hornpipes, and Airs is the rare acoustic guitar CD that isn't dominated by Leo Kottke-style wizardry or a John Fahey influence. It's also a rare example of Irish music played traditionally and not with the ethereal trappings of new age music. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that it's necessary to travel back to ...

The Complete Guitarist

By Davey Graham

Label: Kicking Mule
Released: 1999

Davey Graham: The Complete Guitarist

by AAJ Staff
September 1, 1999

You may not know Davey Graham, but you’ve probably heard those who have. In late ‘Fifties England, here was a virtuoso in a folk scene just starting to play. Many guitarists call him an influence -–people like Bert Jansch and John Renbourn. It continues today: adapting Moorish music to guitar, Graham hit upon the D-A-D-G-A-D tuning, ...