By Francisco Tarrega:

A Sarabande by J. S. Bach that I found while digging through a pile of old sheet music:

arranged by John W. Duarte, played by me on a Martin OM-21 special:

About 150 years ago when I was a callow and dissolute youth I used to sit in the front row of pub folk-clubs – on the floor most of the time, Newcastle Brown in one hand and Gauloises in the other – trying to figure out how this fellow does what he does with a guitar. I’m still trying.

Here’s another one from the time when he had hair:

My rendition of an old John Renbourn tune.

A song I wrote a few years ago; well, the other David wrote the lyrics.

Monkeys have musical tastes apparently:

Monkeys are not fans of classical music, but find heavy metal songs by Metallica and Tool soothing, according to new research.

So a human that prefers heavy metal to classical music has something in common with a monkey. Perhaps Dawkins is right after all; for fans of heavy metal, that is.

My version of a tune by Doc Watson. From my hillbilly period:

Vera Lynn is in the top 20, pushing out U2

More than 60 years after she was labelled the Forces Sweetheart and kept the nation’s spirits up with her timeless records during World War Two, Dame Vera Lynn has returned to the top 20.

Beating off competition from rockers U2, the Stone Roses and Eminem, the 92-year-old has stormed into the charts with her album We’ll Meet Again – The Very Best of Vera Lynn.

A tune from my misspent youth: