I think the guitarist who played with Lonnie Donegan in the early days is worth a mention. His name was Denny Wright, and he was GREAT. Somewhat similar in style to Grady Martin, played a big Guild F-hole single cutaway, just a phenomenal country/jazz players.

The Lonnie Donegan Show used to be on STV at 10.30pm on Fridays. I can remember hitch-hiking sixty miles as a youngster to see the show, as we didn't get STV in our neck of the woods. When I eventually got the chance to see Lonnie live in Edinburgh in 1965 I can remember how bitterly disappointed I was that Denny Wright wasn't playing with him. But LD was actually a very effective guitarist in his own right. He played a small Martin, probably a 000-18. That was the first Martin I had ever seen in the flesh, so to speak.

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