This album is the full award-winning Edinburgh Fringe live show recorded at the Jazz Bar. Running to almost an hour, it includes all the chat and banter and all the jokes. The other CD and the LP focus on the music with a couple of bootlegs involved, but this is the core live show.

58 Fordwych Road (Flat 5) was the home of Roy and Mocy Harper in swingin’ 60s London. It was an open house for many a waif and stray and a hang out for budding musicians of the day. They would come round and play games and swap songs and spliffs. What they learnt from each other - at the start of their own voyages of discovery - led to so many treasures. When I think about this I realise that for such a humble little two room home, it had an outsize impact on the music scene in London at the time.

I thought it would be lovely to invite some of them back into the room and celebrate their contribution to our cultural lives. So, I set about getting to know them and their songs. What I discovered led me on a journey I couldn’t have predicted. It filled me with awe for these innovators and a deeper respect for their music. Along the way, I uncovered a thousand astounding factoids, encompassing the history of the acoustic guitar itself and things like putting a name to the guy who invented DADGAD. To think .. I was the kid that was there in the middle of it, inhaling it all in, is a great thrill. Although, because it was the 60s, I can’t remember much of it!

This record features music from some of those early visitors that became folk megastars. - Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Paul Simon, Jackson C. Frank, Sandy Denny and Roy Harper himself! If you like this one then ‘Fordwych Rd 2: Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back Into Kilburn’ will feature more visitors from later times..