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   Sad to hear of Graham's passing.  I recall the first time I heard a   
   recording of his play I was blown away.  I came away saying, "I could never   
   play as well as that," and I never could.   
      
   He was a one-of-a-kind musician, and a seminal influence on so many   
   guitarists.   
      
   Davy Graham will be missed, but his musical legacy will live on.   
      
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   From the New York Times:   
      
   Davy Graham, Widely Influential British Guitarist, Dies at 68   
      
   By JON PARELES   
   Published: December 19, 2008   
   Davy Graham, a British guitarist whose musical fusions, technique and   
   tuning shaped generations of musicians, died on Monday at his home in   
   London. He was 68.   
      
   His Web site confirmed the death, saying it was caused by a seizure.   
   Mr. Graham had been battling lung cancer.   
      
   To many American listeners Mr. Graham’s best-known piece of music is   
   “Anji,” a guitar solo that Paul Simon performed on Simon and   
   Garfunkel’s 1966 album “Sounds of Silence.” But Mr. Graham’s blend of   
   Celtic music with blues, jazz, spiky syncopations and Eastern modes —   
   he called it folk-Baroque — has been widely influential since the   
   early 1960s, particularly with musicians who sought to revitalize and   
   extend British folk traditions. Among them were the members of   
   Pentangle and Fairport Convention as well as John Martyn, Martin   
   Carthy and the guitarist Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin.   
      
   Mr. Graham popularized what guitarists call the DADGAD tuning, named   
   for the notes on the six strings from lowest to highest. (The standard   
   tuning is EADGBE.) The DADGAD tuning, introduced on recordings by Mr.   
   Graham’s 1962 version of the traditional song “She Moved Through the   
   Fair,” facilitates modal chords with the resonance of open strings. It   
   has been used extensively in traditionalist music as well as in rock   
   by Led Zeppelin and others.   
      
   David Michael Gordon Graham was born in Hinckley, Leicestershire,   
   England, and grew up in London. His mother was Guyanese, his father   
   Scottish. He took classical-guitar lessons and also learned from a   
   Moroccan-influenced guitarist, Steve Benbow.   
      
   At the same time he was drawn to the blues of Leadbelly and Big Bill   
   Broonzy and to the traditional jazz of the skiffle movement in   
   England. During summers he visited Paris, performing on the streets.   
   He played in British folk and blues clubs, and was part of an   
   early-1963 lineup of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. He wrote “Angi” as a   
   teenager for a girlfriend, and in various spellings the piece spread   
   across the English folk scene. (Mr. Simon discovered it during his   
   time in England in the mid-’60s.)   
      
   For “The Guitar Player,” in 1963, Mr. Graham performed duets with a   
   percussionist on jazz and classical tunes. In 1964 he released the   
   wide-ranging “Folk, Blues & Beyond” and the collaboration “Folk Roots,   
   New Routes,” which included innovative duets on folk songs with the   
   traditional singer Shirley Collins. There were Middle Eastern and   
   Indian elements in his music, slipped into a repertory that   
   encompassed the Beatles, Thelonious Monk and his own compositions like   
   “Blue Raga.”   
      
   Mr. Graham, who at times in his career was billed as Davey Graham,   
   remained better known to musicians than to the broader pop audience.   
   The British newspaper The Guardian reported that he had been a   
   registered heroin addict in Britain.   
      
   After releasing two albums in 1970, “The Holly Kaleidoscope” and   
   “Godington Boundry,” Mr. Graham recorded and performed more   
   sporadically, preferring to travel and study languages (Arabic,   
   Turkish, Greek) and instruments (Arabic oud, Indian sarod).   
      
   “I’m a traveler really,” he once said. “I would die as a person if I   
   stayed in place for more than a year.”   
      
   Mr. Graham’s 1970s albums included “All That Moody,” in 1976, and   
   “Dance for Two People,” in 1979. In 1993 he made “Playing in Traffic.”   
   He performed on the PBS series “The Blues” in 2003, and a 2005 BBC   
   Radio interview, “Whatever Happened to Davey Graham?,” revived   
   interest in his work, spurring reissues of his early albums.   
      
   Soon afterward he returned to regular performing, and in 2007 he   
   recorded his final album, “Broken Biscuits.”   
      
   This year the C. F. Martin guitar company made a commemorative version   
   of the OM 000-18 guitar, with which Mr. Graham forged his 1960s style.   
      
   He is survived by two daughters, Kim and Mercy.   
      
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