The Guitar Player

The Guitar Player is an album by British guitarist Davey Graham, released in 1963. It was his first LP after releasing the EP 3/4 A.D. one years earlier. The session-musician Bobby Graham plays drums on the album. "I started to play the guitar about seven years ago, while I was still at school- homework always gave in to music, so I was no genius! As soon as I got home, I would put on a blues record- Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Memphis Slim, Champion Jack Dupree and Muddy Waters and many others as well as modern jazz greats like Charlie Parker, Charlie Mingus and Thelonious Monk, who are still my favourites. When I got tired of the city and a job suffocating in an office, I went to Paris and sang and played in the streets to cinema queues and up and down the French Riviera. I must admit I was very glad when I was invited to play in night clubs where I could put down the plectrum and play finger style as I still do. Every summer for three years I would break the chains of a job and leave for the continent, taking £5– the fare to Paris, freedom and the sun of the Cote d’Azur. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gui...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)