b'Martin SImpsonIve known Martin from his very first professional days,Martins playing is very distinctive. Characterised by a and we have shared a number of significant times. Iclean crispness, his song accompaniments are usually remember us making a huge pan of scrambled eggsarpeggios derived from notes of the song, moving away in someone elses house and looking after a box full offrom the key note and back again in a very characteristic kittens.Nowadays we phone each other up and talkflowing style.about moths, frogs and squirrels. True. Martin has amassed a vast repertoire of material from old-I have watched his insistence on ploughing his owntime music, country blues, Celtic tunes and everything furrow slowly pay off, until he has become one of thein between. He often incorporates banjo techniques most admired guitarists on both sides of the Atlantic. Hesuch as middle finger frailing into his guitar playing. My is also probably the most sought after player amongstfavourite piece is his rendition of a tune from a fiddle all the worlds guitar makers and is a long-standing fan ofplaying Apache Indian. instruments made by my friend Stefan Sobell. On the firstMartin now has four Fylde guitars and does me the Fylde Album he used a rather odd resonator guitar thathonour (I think) of asking and trusting me to work on his I had made for him, which I replaced later with a muchunique and valuable banjos.more up to date version, that Martin describes as the best wooden body Dobro he has ever played.100'