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Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

8. Cat StevensTea For The Tillerman

I was brought up on folk music. My mum and dad used to frequent folk clubs and my dad used to play banjo in a jazz band. That’s how he met my mum, playing at her flatmate’s twenty-first birthday party. And he also used to play sort of a basic folk guitar and he was the one that encouraged me to learn the guitar when I was little, like around seven-years-old. He taught me basic chords and he taught me how to play ‘Sad Lisa’ and ‘Father And Son’, which are on this album.

They’re quite easy songs to learn on a guitar and play when you’re quite young. And those two songs my dad taught me at a young age, and I just love that record. I think it is a great record with great artwork on the cover as well.

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