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Amazing lyric writer & very darkly comic.
Brilliant.
'“The first time I saw Jake was on TV,” says the singer Ralph McTell, who would befriend Thackray on the 70s folk circuit. “He was extraordinary looking. His appearance stopped you in your tracks before you even heard his voice. His playing, his punctuation, his timing, the way he phrased, had nothing to do with American or British folk music. He had his own way of doing everything. Anywhere else he might have been treasured for that. Here he was compared to Pam Ayres.”'
From the Guardian, in a piece about a recent biography, a forthcoming DVD and a festival.
absolutely towers above them so much , that any comparison is negated . He is an absolute one off messiah of folk
I believe he was on something called That's Life, there was also a chap on there named Grant Baynham who did similar stuff. He performed at a creative festival I was involved with this year at a church near Birmingham and sadly passed away only a few weeks later
A brilliant lyricist, songwriter and troubadour. And all utterly deadpan delivery.
The other person clearly influenced by Brel was Scott Walker.