It's the wonder of YouTube...

I have realised that I am long overdue to publish something on here. I thought that the print version of FoT was about to be revived but nothing seems to have come through my letterbox. Anywho, I have no time at the moment, but here are some stunning but relevant video clips. (During the course of the post, I have worked out how to embed video clips - just click on the pictures to set them rolling - but I have left the links in here in case you want to go to YouTube itself and see related material - there's loads!)

Take a look at this. I believe the guy's name is Hannes Coetzee. Whoever he is he does wonderful things with a teaspoon and a guitar.



Or this. Peter, Paul and Mary sing Hangman. The boys look just the sinister side if squeaky clean - and you can see why I fell in love with Mary Travers all those years ago.



Here is an old clip of Paul Simon, who stole Anji from Davey Graham in much the same way as he stole Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme from Martin Carthy. Indiana, let it go. In the clip he is playing Anji, and on second guitar: his brother! (I didn't know he had one either.)



And just by way of proof that, in his prime, Davey Graham was the coolest dude on the planet, here is some film of him from a 1959 Ken Russell documentary on the rise in popularity of the guitar.



Last but not least. Bob Franke playing his own composition Hard Love, a beautiful song that I first came to love thanks to the wonderful Martin Simpson.



Funnily enough, despite the adulation that I have bestowed upon Martin Simpson all these years, I don't miss his fancy guitar stylings at all, not even when the geese start honking...