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David Michael Gordon "Davey" Graham (originally spelled Davy Graham) (26 November 1940 – 15 December 2008) was a
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guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s
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. He inspired many famous practitioners of the fingerstyle acoustic guitar such as
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,
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,
John Renbourn John Renbourn (8 August 1944 – 26 March 2015) was an English guitarist and songwriter. He was best known for his collaboration with guitarist Bert Jansch as well as his work with the folk group Pentangle, although he maintained a solo care ...
,
Martin Carthy Martin Carthy MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, and later artists such as ...
,
John Martyn Iain David McGeachy (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009), known professionally as John Martyn, was a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a 40-year career, he released 23 studio albums, and received frequent critical acclaim. ...
,
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and
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, who based his solo "
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" on Graham's "She Moved Through the Fair". Graham is probably best known for his acoustic instrumental " Anji" and for popularizing
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tuning, later widely adopted by acoustic guitarists.


Biography


Early life

Graham was born in
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to a Guyanese mother, Winifred (known as Amanda) and a Scottish father, Hamish, a teacher from the
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. He grew up in Westbourne Grove, in the Notting Hill Gate area of London. Although he never had any music theory lessons, he learnt to play the piano and harmonica as a child and then took up the classical guitar at the age of 12. As a teenager he was strongly influenced by the folk guitar player
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, who had travelled widely with the army and played a guitar style influenced by Moroccan music.


"Anji"/"Angi"

At the age of 19, Graham wrote what is probably his most famous composition, the acoustic guitar solo "Angi" (sometimes spelled "Anji": see below). Colin Harper credits Graham with single-handedly inventing the concept of the folk guitar instrumental. "Angi", named after his then girlfriend, appeared on his debut EP ''3/4 AD'' in April 1962. The tune spread through a generation of aspiring guitarists, changing its spelling as it went. Before the record was released,
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had learnt it from a 1961 tape borrowed from Len Partridge. Jansch included it on his 1965 debut album as "Angie". The spelling ''Anji'' became the more widely used after it appeared on
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's 1966 album ''
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''. In 1969, the same name for
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's ''100 Ton Chicken'' was used. "Anji" soon became a rite of passage for many acoustic finger-style guitarists.
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has recorded "Anji" on two separate albums of his. Some other musicians of note who have covered "Anji" are
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,
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,
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, Clive Carroll and the anarchist group
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, who used the guitar piece as a basis for their anti-war song " Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)". "Angi" is the second track on the first CD of the Topic Records 70-year anniversary boxed set ''
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''.


Folk fame

Graham came to the attention of guitarists through his appearance in a 1959 broadcast of the
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arts series ''Monitor'', produced by
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and titled ''Hound Dogs and Bach Addicts: The Guitar Craze'', in which he played an acoustic instrumental version of " Cry Me a River". During the 1960s, Graham released a string of albums of music from all around the world in many genres. 1964's ''
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'' and the following year's collaboration with the folk singer
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, ''
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'', are frequently cited among his most influential album releases. '' Large as Life and Twice as Natural'' includes his cover of
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's "
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" alongside unprecedented explorations of Eastern Modes and scales played in Faustian takes on a Gibson J45 steel string guitar. 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
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, he was no purist, absorbing all his influences into his own ever-expanding conception of the possibilities of guitar music. Quizzed, for instance, on his introduction of a
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into an
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, his amiable retort was to the effect that, if he felt like it and it sounded alright, why shouldn't he? Graham appears (uncredited) playing guitar in a pub in
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's 1963 film ''
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''.


Retirement

Graham married the American singer Holly Gwinn in the late 1960s and recorded the albums ''The Holly Kaleidosope'' and ''Godington Boundary'' with her in 1970, shortly before Gwinn had to return to the US and he was unable to follow her, because of his visa problem due to a
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conviction. He later described himself as having been "a casualty of too much self-indulgence", becoming a heroin addict in imitation of his jazz heroes. During this period, he taught acoustic guitar and also undertook charity work, particularly for various mental health charities. For several years he was on the executive council of
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and he was involved for some time with the mystic
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(Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). In 1976 Graham recorded ''All That Moody'', essentially a private pressing that remains his most collectible vinyl record owing to its "moody" nature and rarity. He recorded two further groundbreaking albums for Kicking Mule, 1978's ''The Complete Guitarist'' and 1980's ''Dance For Two People''. He continued to play concerts, but dedicated the main thrust of his life to studying languages; he was fluent in
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(taught by his native-speaking father), French, and Greek and could hold his own in Turkish. He collected poems and folk songs and would regale his neighbours. After some time he became increasingly disinhibited. His penultimate album ''Playing in Traffic'' was so titled as he was frustrated by trying to learn Bach in the noise of 11 Lyme Street, Camden, where a boatyard used to operate on the canal just outside his bedroom.


Rediscovery and death

Graham was the subject of a 2005 BBC Radio documentary, ''Whatever Happened to Davy Graham?'' and in 2006 featured in the
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documentary ''Folk Britannia''. Many people sought out Graham over the years and tried to encourage him to return to the stage to play live; the last of this long line of seekers was Mark Pavey, who arranged some outings with guitarists and old friends including
Bert Jansch Herbert Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter ...
,
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and
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. These concerts were typically eclectic, with Graham playing a mix of acoustic blues, Romanian dance tunes, Irish pipe tunes, songs from South Africa and pieces by Bach. His final album, ''Broken Biscuits'', consisted of originals and new arrangements of traditional songs from around the world. Graham was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2008 and died on 15 December of that year. He is survived by his two daughters, Mercy and Kim. In November 2016, a
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was installed at his birthplace, the former Bosworth Park Infirmary building.


Influence

Graham did not seek or achieve great commercial success, though his music received positive critical feedback and influenced folk revival artists and fellow players such as
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,
John Renbourn John Renbourn (8 August 1944 – 26 March 2015) was an English guitarist and songwriter. He was best known for his collaboration with guitarist Bert Jansch as well as his work with the folk group Pentangle, although he maintained a solo care ...
,
Martin Carthy Martin Carthy MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, and later artists such as ...
,
Ralph McTell Ralph McTell (born Ralph May, 3 December 1944) is an English singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s. McTell is best known for his song " Streets of London" (19 ...
,
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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, as well as folk rock bands such as
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and Pentangle. Though Graham is commonly referred to as a folk musician, the diversity of his music shows strong influences from many genres. Elements of blues, jazz, and Middle Eastern music are evident throughout his work.
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described Graham as "...an extraordinary, dedicated player, the one everyone followed and watched – I couldn't believe anyone could play like that," while
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claimed that he was "courageous and controversial – he never followed the rules."
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maintained that the guitarist was "the greatest blues player I ever saw, apart from
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". According to
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, "What impressed me with Davy Graham...was he played the guitar fretboard somehow as if it was a keyboard. There was a kind of freedom. You weren't conscious of him using chord shapes at all: his fingers just seemed to run around with complete freedom on the fretboard."


DADGAD

One of Graham's lasting legacies is the
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(Open Dsus4) guitar tuning, which he popularised in the early 1960s. While travelling in
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, he developed the tuning so he could better play along with and translate the traditional
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music he heard to guitar. Graham then went on to experiment playing traditional folk pieces in DADGAD 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
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and
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players) DADGAD introduced a new "standard" tuning. Many guitarists now use the tuning, especially in folk and world music.


Discography


Studio albums

* ''
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'' (1963) * ''
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'' (1965) * '' Midnight Man'' (1966) * '' Large as Life and Twice as Natural'' (1968) * ''
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'' (1969) * ''
Holly Kaleidoscope ''Holly Kaleidoscope'' is an album by British musician Davy Graham, released in 1970. His wife at the time, Holly Gwyn, contributes on vocals. Reception In his Allmusic review, critic Ritchie Unterberger wrote, "Graham's final Decca LP was co- ...
'' (1970) * '' Godington Boundary'' (1970) (with Holly Gwinn) * '' All That Moody'' (1976) * '' The Complete Guitarist'' (1978) * ''Playing in Traffic'' (1991) * ''Broken Biscuits'' (2007)


EPs

* ''3/4 AD'' (1962) * ''From a London Hootenanny'' (1963)


Live albums

* ''After Hours'' (1997)


Compilations

* ''Dance for Two People'' (1979) * ''Folk Blues and All Points in Between'' (1985) * ''Fire in the Soul'' (1999) * ''The Best of Davy Graham (A Scholar & A Gentleman)'' (2009) * ''Anthology-Lost Tapes 1961–2007'' (2012)


Collaborations

* ''
Folk Roots, New Routes ''Folk Roots, New Routes'' is a collaborative folk album by Shirley Collins and Davy Graham, released by Decca in 1964. The album was produced by Ray Horricks and recorded by Gus Dudgeon; the sleeve featured a photograph by Crispian Woodgate and ...
'' (1964) with Shirley Collins


Bibliography

* Harper, Colin (2005), ''Irish Folk, Trad and Blues: a Secret History'' * Harper, Colin (2006), ''Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival''. Bloomsbury. * Hodgkinson, Will (2005). Article in ''
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''; Friday, 15 July 2005. * ''The Times'' (2008). Obituary published in ''The Times'', 22 December 2008, p. 50. * Young, Rob (2010), "Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's visionary music"


References


External links

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