| If you enjoy playing acoustic guitar music you will | | | | destroyed by his substance abuse. |
| most likely have heard of Davy Graham. Some | | | | Davy's guitar playing roots were in folk music but his |
| people believe he is the founder of the world music | | | | interests were much wider. Jazz was beginning to |
| genre, Some guitar players believe he invented the | | | | influence many musicians in the fifties and this, in turn |
| DADGAD tuning. | | | | led folk guitar players like Davy Graham in |
| Davy Graham was born in England in 1940. He grew | | | | unexpected directions. One of these directions was |
| up in the age of the "beatnik", the time when the | | | | towards the music of the middle east. It was |
| values of society were being questioned by young | | | | commonplace for players of the slide guitar to |
| intellectuals and the traditions of music were being | | | | deviate from the standard E A D G B E tuning but |
| challenged by the interest of young people in jazz. | | | | until Davy Graham began tuning his guitar to D A D G |
| The changes in society that began in the nineteen | | | | A D there was no one alternative tuning for guitarists |
| forties and fifties also included the widespread use of | | | | interested in improvisation. |
| drugs, and Davy Graham's career was all but | | | | |