Growing up with the sounds of crooners and jazz singers, then being introduced to the recordings of the likes of Davy Graham, Paul Simon and Tom Paxton, it became obvious that music - and in particular, the guitar - was always going to feature heavily in Martin Lennon’s future.

Learning Davy Graham’s seminal Anji propelled him away from Bert Weedon’s Play In A Day and onto the kind of ‘Folk, Blues And Beyond’ that Graham had promised. Within a few months he had begun writing songs.

When the...