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After he had his first hit at 15 years old, Paul Simon became one of the all-time great songwriters, but he’s a remarkable guitar player, too – and he learned his precise fingerstyle approach from the English folk masters

There is a case to be made that Paul Simon is one of the most underrated players ever, but maybe that's because he always foregrounds the song. This lesson shows just what a clever player he is

Guitar World

He taught John Lennon to fingerpick, shaping future Beatles classics, while the ’60s music press compared him to Bob Dylan – why Donovan is an under-appreciated acoustic guitar great

As legend tells it, he was the man who taught John Lennon to pick. And he sure could write a song. We pay tribute to the flying Scotsman of the Swinging Sixties, Donovan Phillips Leitch, with this lesson in his folk-informed style

Guitar World

“Our generation owes him our artistic lives – because he opened all the doors in Nashville”: The Bob Dylan album that helped change country music

On his last studio album of the '60s, Bob Dylan embraced country music and unveiled a surprising new vocal style

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"How do you tune a B string? You can't." What Blur’s Graham Coxon learned – and didn't learn – from folk legend Bert Jansch

The Blur guitarist and solo artist on the pressures of playing – and even tuning-up – in front of your heroes

MusicRadar

Simon Emmerson obituary

Founder of the bands Afro Celt Sound System and the Imagined Village, who produced albums by Manu Dibango and Baaba Maal

The Guardian - UK

Eliza Carthy: ‘Folk music is sexy and filthy and at the end of the night you fall over. That’s how I live’

She was the pink-haired fiddler who punked up folk, but Covid almost sank her and her famous family. Eliza Carthy talks about going broke, bereavement and the healing power of boozy, bawdy music

The Guardian - UK

Norma Waterson was one of folk’s greatest voices – and greatest people

The British folk singer, who has died aged 82, was proud of the music she made – and her warmth as well as her toughness sang loudly in her songs

The Guardian - UK

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Norma Waterson obituary

Celebrated singer of traditional English folk music whose embrace of other musical styles won her a wide following

The Guardian - UK

Folk singer Norma Waterson dies at 82 with Billy Bragg leading tributes

Mercury Prize-nominated Norma Waterson had been hospitalised with pneumonia before her death

Daily Mirror

Norma Waterson, celebrated British folk singer, dies aged 82

Musician acclaimed for work with siblings and husband Martin Carthy in the Watersons had been suffering from pneumonia

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