'Folk, Blues & Beyond' is the title of a 1965 album by British folk revivalist and fingerstyle acoustic guitar legend Davy Graham.
It's also the title chosen by Jason McNiff for his regular Thursday music nights at our local pub. These have been running since last September and the format of Jason playing either side of a different guest has been really good. Needless to say I'm a regular, so I've seen him quite a lot and as a fan jokingly call myself a 'Niffy'.
I did feature him two years ago as a Friday Star Track (click link for this), mentioning the connection to his time at the 12-Bar Club in London studying the guitar playing of Bert Jansch. Who in turn had been inspired by Davy Graham.
I have a number of favourite songs, plenty of newer ones, but I really like this old one from 2000, recorded in a closing down tape studio in Wandsworth. 'Off the Rails’ has a nice video of images of London from back then (and somewhat curiously photos of New York). It has a catchy chorus and lyrics that deal with life on the road (or train stations in this case) as he name drops Waterloo and the Thames while paraphrasing a Jackson C. Frank song 'Blues Run the Game', that is part of his current setlist and he tells us he'll sing that song till his dying day.
> 'Off the Rails' written by Jason McNiff - great song !
AND as if by magic I've just come across some archive footage [for Onlinetv by Rick Siegel] of Jason at the 12-Bar Club singing the Blues >
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