Oh for Chrissake does it matter........
Look here are the canon of inspirational guitarists...

It goes like this ....django, Jansch, segovia, Hendrix....we should be so proud our little piss pond of a folk club movement produced one of those.

This is a guy whom LA session guitarists, who know everything, throw up with nerves when they have to work with him...his reputation is so great! Everybody I know whose jammed with him says - after ten minutes the guy leaves you doing stuff you never imagined was possible. an Alex Higgins of the acoustic guitar....

basically some sonofabitch wouldn't book him because he didn't know the 13th verse of the dowie dens of the wild rover and didn't stick the correct finger in his ear.

we should be proud to have shared the planet with this human being.

granted, he's one weird fucker!