906 Davey Graham “The Fakir” 1966

“Although Mr. Graham was acclaimed among his peers, his eclecticism posed a marketing dilemma for record companies and booking agents. His music was not exactly folk and not exactly jazz. Mr. Graham incorporated Asian and Indian harmonies into his compositions and often played in unconventional guitar tunings. He once termed his style ‘folk-baroque’ because of the classical guitar techniques he brought to the folk guitar. ‘I suppose I saw myself as some kind of a Marco Polo,’ he told music writer Richie Unterberger. ‘Because I wanted to get on with the Pope and Genghis Khan, you know?’ David Michael Gordon Graham was born Nov. 22, 1940, in Leicester, England, to a Guyanese mother and a Scottish father...‘I’m a traveler really, I would die as a person if I stayed in place for more than a year,’ Mr. Graham once said. ‘I like to change my impressions and refresh my personality. My roots are in my music, and in my friends, that's enough’” (Terence McArdie, Washington Post, 18 December 2008). 

Davey Graham “The Fakir”