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"Since John Renbourn and Bert Jansch shuffled off to the folk club in the sky he is one of the sole fully qualified survivors and you can hear the truth dawn in the bluesy angst of Plain Old Bob Has A Hoe Down: down being the operative word here. Lament For Nepal is one of three love letters to the earthquake-ravaged Kathmandu Valley. A stark Nepali bell opens and closes this haunting piece, though as is so often the case with Chapman, the English pastoral qualities of the composition are equally compelling".

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"His name was dropped, modestly, occasionally, by my effusive Lancastrian guitar teacher. He was a name, and occasionally he was a dry Yorkshireman in the lounge, as I turned up with spots and a guitar case. But later I saw him as folk's forgotten man. England's Bob Dylan, or, more accurately perhaps, England's Sixto Rodriguez ... Perhaps his Zen is his secret, and why he's as happy playing to twenty despite talent and experience worthy of thousands. Maybe that's the reason he can make unfaltering music, of the highest quality, prolifically and into his seventies. So maybe try a little more Zen. And stay true to your art. And listen to Michael Chapman. He's England's inheritance".

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