John Smith & Da 'Ja

Although British folk guitarist John Smith bears comparison to alternative folk contemporaries like Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Fionn Regan, José González, and Cara Dillon, the Devon-born, Liverpool-based prodigy has connections to an older generation of inventive and progressive folk guitarists as well, having played alongside John Martyn, John Renbourn, and Martin Simpson. An inventive guitarist who not only explores unusual tunings à la Davy Graham, but often plays his acoustic instrument in entirely unconventional ways (detuning strings in the middle of a chord, laying it uprig...