Early influences were, as well as Scottish traditional music, the famous figures from the “British school” of guitar-playing i.e. Davey Graham, John Renbourn, Bert Jansch and John Martyn.
Moving to Berlin in 1981, he has made a name for himself on the German acoustic scene initially with the trio Twilight. He then continued to make a name for himself as a solo fingerstylist and as a founder member of the folk-pop bands Be Mine or Run and Talking Water, as half of the duo Kelpie (with Kerstin ...