This is what folks have said! His voice: "special quality", "powerful", "sensitive", "melting chocolate", "mellifluous"... His guitar: "absorbing", "inimitable", "percussive", "captivating", "idiosyncratic", "brilliant"... His approach: "When other people sing a ballad you're waiting for it to finish. When you sing one you're waiting to see what happens next".

I am pedantic about emphasis and placing of words for intelligibility and nuances of meaning (as I see them intended). The timing, perhaps even the melody may give way to the story telling. Unaccompanied songs have that free flexibility but the guitar can bend too. I am a singer with a guitar, not a guitarist who sings.
I play in a curious way; intuitive even haphazard; you'd have to see it, but its what it sounds like that matters.

The multiplicity of variants of traditional songs fascinates me but I sing anything whose content feels right. The song must be worth the effort, worth the singing for its story or message or emotion. Yes I sing some well known songs but only if something there has grabbed me.
A few songs are my own writing; I also borrow poems that deserve a wider hearing and add melodies.

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