Firstly, don't hesitate to email me at:
Iconic Music
Stevie, Andy and Karen are my agents – contact them to book me
Fairport Convention and Cropredy
You can buy my albums online from Fairport's online shop
Ric Sanders
Fairporter Ric's violin features on Lily of Barbary and Peter Brown's Fancy – top notch scraping
Jonny Boston
Rising new jazz star Jonny adds smooth soprano sax to Indisputable Thing. Mmmm, nice
Dave Pegg
Good ol' boy Peggy lends his fantastic talent on bass to Lily of Barbary and busily Morrises On to Nether Bagwash
Roger Inniss
Five, six (and possibly more) string basses on several tracks – "D'you want that with or without frets, sir?"
Jude Rees
Young and so talented – bombarde and oboe ('like trying to blow down a ****ing weasel' according to Eddie Izzard)
Anna Ryder
Quixotic and so talented – Ms Ryder contributes some fine parping and squeezing (French horns and accordion)
Pete Scrowther
Glum and so talented – on my album en passant with world-weary asides, Pete is an inspiration, influence and dear friend
Gareth Turner
Gareth is my colleague in Little Johnny England – he squeezes in muscular fashion on Hedge of Sound
Little Johnny England
My 'other' band – five-piece folkrock with new, somewhat feminised, rhythm section
Net Rhythms
An excellent online magazine with giglists, reviews and lots more
Rock n Reel
This recently-relaunched excellent magazine covers folk, blues and beyond
Proper Music Distribution
They distribute my album and their site's the gateway to a raft of great music
BBC Radio 2 Folk site
The title says it all, really – required browsing
English Folk Performers
Look up everything about UK folk and roots music on Martin Nail's extraordinarily comprehensive site
Folk Icons
My chum Steve Sheldon hosts sites for Swarb, Ashley Hutchings, and the Carthys
fROOTS
The UK's premier world, roots and traditional music mag
Acoustic Magazine
Beautifully produced and devoted to acoustic guitars
Isis magazine
The UK's definitive Bob Dylan 'zine.
Musikfolk
Leading online mail-order shop for folk, folkrock and accoustic music
G7th performance capo
With looks straight out of the Porsche trinket shop, this is the mother of all capos – the easiest to use, less inclined to pull the note sharp than Shubb or Kayser and unconditionally guaranteed for ever. Totally top-notch bit of design; thank you Nick.
Headway Pickups
Designed and built here in the North Oxfordshire Folk-Rock Belt, Steve and John have come up with the sweetest piezo acoustic guitar pickup system I've heard (ask Rob Braviner). Low-impact electrification for my Martin – only one tiny hole drilled under bridge saddle and end-pin replaced, the HE1/G2.FEQ has a fixed EQ pre-amp attached to the end-pin jack socket. Bob Dylan has one in his Martin ... shame he won't play it on stage these days.
Martin Guitars
Having done the factory tour when LJE was in Pennsylvania ( I love the smell of mahogany in the morning) I could not resist the offer of a rummage through the pile of 00016GTS 12th-fret slot-heads, picking out an absolute corker that I used on the recent Fairport tour and have fallen even more deeply in love with as a result. It has a wider fingerboard than yer dreadnought and I'm now spoiled. Many, many thanks to Dick Boak and Bob Fehr – and thanks for the t-shirts, guys!
Jon Kammerer Guitars
Radical technology, great sound, superbly playable – looks like a butterbean and I've got one! Thanks, Jon
Blue Moon Studio
Friendly, efficient and affordable – the ever-upgrading uberstudio (Pro-Tools, new desk, loads of toys, and now a Hammond Organ!) is the jewel of the folk-rock belt. This is where I recorded rhythm tracks for Hedge of Sound and all of Galileo's Apology. And Dylan Project 2. And all the LJE stuff.
Thanks, Mark, you are '... a great humanitarian and a true philanthropist.'