Davy Graham

Davy
Graham was born
in Leicestershire, to a Guyanese mother and a Scottish father.
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 Steve Benbow, who had
travelled widely and played a guitar style influenced by Moroccan
music. Graham was 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, Martin Carthy, Paul
Simon, John Martyn and indeed Jimmy Page. Graham is probably best
known for his acoustic instrumental Anji
and for popularizing DADGAD tuning, later widely adopted by many
acoustic guitarists.
Not one to be categorised Graham could be seen as a true World music
artist covering the genres of folk, blues and jazz.