It was, I think, the influence of The Band that had some of my peers heading in search of music that could have been written and/or performed at any point in the past century or two rather than tunes that were obviously contemporary, a quest that pointed some of us towards Fairport Convention and, by extension, to the inimitable Richard Thompson.
It was a quest that led, to use a widely quoted example, a group of Latino kids in Los Angeles to realise they could use traditional material from their own Hispanic heritage in the same way Fairport had electrified English folk tunes.
Discography: Studio albums 1972-85 1986-Present Live albums; 'Cottage industry' releases Compilations
Albums reviewed here: Dream Attic Electric Live Warrior
Archived Audio: Richard Thompson - FUV Live at Clearwater - 2014
Video: Richard Thompson: 15 great songs Someone Else's Fancy (1971)
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