MARTIN SIMPSON ~ 'Little Musgrave' ~ LIVE

Accomplished guitarist Martin Simpson performing 'Little Musgrave' from his most recent award winning album 'Prodigal Son', to a full house at Bournemouth Folk Club, Centre Stage, Dorset, Uk on Sunday 8th March 2009.

Martin Simpson's guitar playing is unsurpassed; he is one of the finest finger pickers and slide pickers of our time and was recently named one of the top artists of the decade by Acoustic Guitar Magazine. Winner of 5 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards - 2 of them in 2008 for Best Original Song and Best Album - an Indie Award for his album Cool & Unusual, and the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ards Guitar Festival, he is a superb interpreter of traditional music and song from both sides of the Atlantic. Growing up in Lincolnshire he was inspired by the likes of Martin Carthy, Davey Graham and Richard Thompson during the folk revival of the 60s. He was also hugely influenced by the recordings of Big Joe Williams, the Reverend Gary Davies, Blind Willie Johnson and Doc Watson, which has led to an eclectic style of playing and repertoire that is all his own. He has worked with the likes of Jackson Browne, David Lindley, June Tabor, Martin Carthy, Martin Taylor and Eric Bibb and is a popular and much loved solo performer. Both spell-binding, and highly entertaining, he is a master of his craft.

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For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of listening to Martin's album, 'Prodigal Son', it is an album of sublime guitar playing and atmosphere.

Go and buy it as you will not be disappointed. It's quite superb, whatever your musical taste.

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