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4 unusual facts about Steve Ashley


Steve Ashley

He plays a right-handed guitar, left-handed, without changing the strings, in the manner of Elizabeth Cotton.

During this period, Karl Dallas frequently linked Ashley’s name with Richard Thompson, as being in the vanguard of a new approach to folk song writing.

At this time Marshall also played the early demo tapes to the folk critic Karl Dallas, who interviewed Ashley for Melody Maker.

In 1978 at the Rotterdam Folk Festival, Ashley met the Australian folk-rock band, The Bushwackers, whose leader, Dobe Newton asked Ashley to write some musical settings of poems by the deceased bush poet, Henry Lawson.



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Dik Cadbury

He has recorded and performed with numerous artists, including The Manfreds, Steve Ashley, Marcus Foster, The Dave Harper Band and many others.