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2009, Harry Draper tuned in to Radio 2 and his life changed. The legendary John Martyn had just died, and the station was presenting a tribute. “They played ,” Draper recalls, “and I’d never heard that sound before – the fingerpicking, the arpeggios, the slapping. I became obsessed with him and went back through his whole catalogue. I went from a 13 year-old who’d never played guitar to wanting to play , and I didn’t

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