Adrian Freed

John Renbourn took up Sitar after Ravi Shankar's visit to England in the 1960's. Many of his guitar arrangements subsequently reflected modal melodic arrangements on the middle strings with drone accompaniment on the outer strings. John set this one up in standard tuning requiring some clever harmonizations and partial barre chords. John told me that "Lord Franklin" reflected his early approach to this before Davey Graham showed everyone how much easier this sort of thing was in alternate tunings, e.g. DADGAD.
John Renbourn - lord Franklin
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