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Artist: Davy Graham: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Discography: Midnight Man Year: 2005 Tracks: 14 One of the nearly eclecticist guitarists of the sixties, Graham's mix of phratry, blues, jazz, Middle Eastern sounds, and Indian ragas was an authoritative accelerator of the British tribe vista. Like Sandy Bull and John Fahey -- deuce folk-based guitarists with a exchangeable taste for genre-bending experiment -- Graham could not be aforesaid to be a rock instrumentalist. But like Bull and Fahey, he shared the keenness of the '60s psychedelic bikers to stretch out and incorporate unpredictable influences into his music. While he wasn't a great deal of a vocaliser, Graham's taste in material was broad and sharp, surrounding blues, ragas, Joni Mitchell, Charles Mingus, and the noted instrumental "Anji," which Graham recorded in 1962, way sooner the more noted versions by Bert Jansch and Simon & Garfunkel. Besides cutting respective albums of his cause crop in the sixties with sympathetic, subdued unconstipated recurrence sections, he to a fault recorded with traditional folk vocalizer Shirley Collins and British vapours father Alexis Korner. Graham recorded only sporadically later on the sixties, although he performed with the illustrious acoustic guitar wizards Stefan Grossman and Duck Baker. |
TORONTO - Authors Barbara Gowdy and Rachel Zolf were named winners Thursday of the 21st annual Trillium Book Awards, Ontario's top literary prize.
Gowdy won for her novel "Helpless" (HarperCollins) while Zolf won the poetry award for her collection "Human Resources" (Coach House Books).
French-language winners were Pierre Raphael Pelletier for "L'Oeil de la lumiere" (Les Editions l'Interligne) and Tina Charlebois for the poetry collection "Poils lisses" (Les Editions l'Interligne).
Winners of the poetry book award, intended for emerging poets, each receive $10,000 and their publishers get $2,000. The other Trillium award winners receive $20,000, and their publishers $2,500.
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