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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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Liam Travitt, Twitter
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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Mpf1947, Youtube
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com