Dave Swarbrick shared with Mark Twain the privilege of saying that reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated.  Sadly, that is no longer true; he died on 3rd June this year, a fact not widely reported in Australia (although he did get a decent obituary in The Sydney Morning Herald).

Here follows a small sample of his work, including two live BBC recordings with the guitarist Richard Thompson, one from 1969 with Fairport Convention, and finally  from the Goodbye Television Centre Concert in 2013: