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The First Time: Jonathan Aird – Ralph McTell, somewhere in London, maybe 1982
This has been a strange series – seems like very few of the Americana UK writers started their gig life with anything even remotely resembling a genre artist. And there’s been a disturbing amount of prog-rock. […]