There's no doubt that Davy Graham started off listening to American blues and jazz guitarists as a young man - and learned a deal from English musician Steve Benbow, who's rarely mentioned these days but who was very influential on him. There's also no doubt that he absorbed a great deal of North African and Indian music in his early days, which led to the very influential DADGAD tuning and to his interesting playing style.

And, as Dick rightly points out, there is a lute tradition in English music, which had various continental influences - Spanish, French, etc. - and tunes from Playford. A great many English fingerpickers - I was one - adopted Graham's style as far as they could, but they also absorbed picking as exemplified by Merle Travis and Doc Watson. And they listened to players like John Williams and Julian Bream. John Renbourn, for example, took classical guitar lessons.

It's a real mix in the UK - from various sources.