The DADGAD Godfather - Davey Graham
Pull Davey from the Jenga-Tower of open tunings and it all collapses. No Jansch. No Renbourn. No Page. Etc. Or at least
very different versions of so very many, many players.
In this audio and tab lesson, we're going to be examining the DADGAD style of Davy Graham - the alternate tunings pioneer who is widely regarded as the father of this versatile tuning method.DADGAD is
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A key figure of the early Sixties British folk revival, Davey Graham (1940–2008) was a unique steel-string–wielding hybrid.
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The tune everyone had to learn in the 60s,
Anji. If you could play this at open stage night at a coffee house, you were it.
Paul Simon came back from London with
Anji under his belt, having lifted it virtually note for note from Bert Jansch, who lifted it from Graham. (He also came back with Martin Carthy's version of the trad tune
Scarborough Fair, having pestered Carthy again and again to teach it to him, and he promptly copyrighted it. And if the boys from Los Lobos ever find him alone in a back alley ....
.)