Enjoyed skimming this thread. Brought back a few memories. Funnily enough, I was listening to Dick Gaughan's Handful of Earth in the car this morning driving over the M62.

One rather iconic (for me) album of the 70s and I think spurred me on to treat traditional and contemporary, UK &Ireland and American etc etc as one entity to fill your own repertoire it would be Therapy's One Night Stand. It represents for me everything you would hear in a drafty upstairs room of a pub with candles on the tables and guitar cases lining the walls, and this teenager watched and listened on Sunday night, practiced like hell on a Monday night and tried something I learned in front of others come the Tuesday night at another club.