Adapting the classical guitar technique that he learned as a youngster to the traditional music of the United Kingdom, Paul Downes has gained a reputation as one of England's top acoustic instrumentalists. Together with fiddle/mandolin/guitar player, songwriter and vocalist, Phil Beer, a childhood friend, Downes provided the instrumental strength behind the Arizona Smoke Revue. Formed by ex-New Christy Minstrels and Limelighters banjo/guitar player and vocalist Bill Zorn, in the early-1980s, the Arizona Smoke Revue's 1981 album, Thundering On The Horizon and single, "All Fall ...