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I did a lot of early folk blues everything from Furry Lewis to Josh White, and some reworked covers from Bonnie Raitt and others.

As a guitarist, Joni Mitchell was the most intricate, those wonderful offbeat open tunings, expanded my horizons a lot.

Her songs were largely about personal relationships, unhappy relationships, and at that time in my life, before I met and fell in love with my wife, it fit.

I also did a version of "Ode to Billy Joe" of which I was very proud, but it was in a way inspired by Joni Mitchell because I played it in a minor open tuning.

I did some offbeat Jimi Hendrix too, again in open tunings, Up from the Skies and The Wind Cries Mary.

It's sort of a shame I think - I regret I gave up playing about five or ten years ago.