Well, I wouldn't include anything from his two early albums! For example, I was listening to "Little Musgrave" on Youtube recently, and it's hard to believe that it's Nic playing the guitar because it is so boringly predictable! He's simply playing - what we used to call - "clawhammer style". And, a not very interesting clawhammer at that! As Ian Anderson pointed out on the TV documentary, Nic went through an amazing change between those first two albums and "Noah's Ark Trap"! Did he go down to the crossroads, and make a deal with the devil?
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