The Pentangle – Basket of Light

What can you say? Perfection. Every single arrangement on this is so great and still such a surprise. And John Renbourn is very important in my life. When I first started out in about 1995, I went to this folk club in Rome, FolkStudio, to see him play. We all got invited to his aftershow drinks in a pub in Rome, and there was a lock-in, and this guitar doing rounds. I had a go, and John was very kind and very complementary to my playing, which led me to record my first song. We stayed in touch, carried on being friends, and we were supposed to make a record together. I actually spent a few weeks in his place working songs out, not long before he died, and there are a few beautiful pictures of us playing around his table. You can imagine the stories he’d tell me. They’d feed my imagination.