He plays a right-handed guitar, left-handed, without changing the strings, in the manner of Elizabeth Cotton.
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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.
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At this time Marshall also played the early demo tapes to the folk critic Karl Dallas, who interviewed Ashley for Melody Maker.
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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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He has recorded and performed with numerous artists, including The Manfreds, Steve Ashley, Marcus Foster, The Dave Harper Band and many others.