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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