Martin Simpson’s a generation younger than the Sixties folk revivalists, like Martin Carthy and Bert Jansch, who beat the path he followed.
But, now sixty, he has a unique ability to make traditional tunes from both sides of the Atlantic sound like relatives only recently separated.
Here’s Simpson alone at a dramatically close mic’d acoustic guitar, in Sheffield and Maryland, his burnished Lincolnshire burr bringing back home itinerant cross-cultural hybrids, such as Bob Dylan’s Blind Wille McTell, the unacknowledged descendent of a distant English folk song.
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Dick Socrates, Twitter
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John Robins, Comedian
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Brighton Argus
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Anamatronix, Youtube
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Stokeylitfest, Twitter
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Gabrielle, Chortle.com
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Jamespearse, Twitter
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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A D Ward, Twitter