b'When the Saints go marching in, to the pinnacle ofWhere did you get this?.cool at the time, Anji, or maybe Albatross or OhI made it. Well. Will you make me one? Guitars were becoming important.The centralNoise of me collapsing on the floor.point of every party was the guy with the acousticThat was the start of a deep friendship that has guitar playing Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and thelasted over forty years. We turn up in each others Beatles. The Beatles relied heavily on acousticlives quite a lot and have made a serious pact to go guitars. Hearing Django Reinhardt or Big Billto each others funerals.Broonzy for the first time changed a lot of lives, including mine. I began to take guitar playing andGordon introduced me to lots of players, and I met guitar making a lot more seriously. many others at the club. The guitars I made were My house was on the edge of the New Forest ofa reflection of the music I was interested in, and Southern England. The forest was Henry VIIIsin turn, my guitars suited the players who were hunting ground and a source of timber for themaking that music. The players became my friends. great ships of the Tudor age. I was playing guitarMy guitars actually made a contribution to the a lot, and actually played fiddle on a record madedevelopment of the music. The stuff of dreams.to support the raising of Henrys sunken flagshipBritish players like Martin Carthy and Archie Fisher the Mary Rose. Henrys daughter Elizabeth waswere rediscovering their own traditional music to become the sponsor for much of Shakespearesand inventing new guitar styles to give it fresh life. writing during the Golden Age of Literature. TheseJohn Renbourn was taking classical pieces, often little snippets begin to build up later in this story. Elizabethan lute music, and playing them on the modern steel string guitar, in a similar way to how Meeting heroes and finding names Segovia had taken cello pieces and transposed them I helped run the folk club, and met everyone fromfor nylon strung guitar. John James was doing the those very early years of acoustic guitar. On onesame with Welsh Harp music and Ragtime Piano. memorable night, I showed Gordon Giltrap a guitar. Davy Graham was playing eastern music on Me in 1994 Alloa Barrel Park. Final attention to bracing in 1994, after I sold the snookerI am wearing a ceremonial photography skirt and trying to make company. I worked in my own partitioned area to keep awaya very small guitar jump through a hole in the sky. Six million from the dust. I made the jigs and tools behind me to help makeempty casks waiting to be re-used, somebody must have been larger numbers of mandolins and bouzoukis. drinking a lot.29'