Wild Willy Barrett is an English folksinger best known for his collaborations with John Otway. His musical style is witty and his humour onstage is dry, but this does not always translate well onto recorded albums. He is known for virtuoso fiddle playing, ability with a great number of stringed instruments, and playing slide guitar with a raw egg. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x800, 121 KB)Wild Willy Barrett at the 2003 Cambridge Folk Festival (in the club tent). ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x800, 121 KB)Wild Willy Barrett at the 2003 Cambridge Folk Festival (in the club tent). ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... Otway at Glastonbury Festival, 2002 John Otway, (born October 8, 1952) is a self-confessed unsuccessful singer songwriter, who built a large cult audience through unrelenting touring, a surreal sense of humour and a winning underdog personality. ... The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a fifth apart. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ...
Recently he has been performing vocal and strings for the band "Sleeping Dogz", and closed the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2003, 2004 and 2005. The Cambridge folk festival is renowned for its eclectic mix of music and a wide definition of what might be considered folk. ...
He is credited with supporting guitar/fiddle/vocals in a number of other albums, from Rolf Harris's version of Stairway to Heaven to fiddle/guitar/mandolin for George Hamilton IV. Rolf Harris (born March 30, 1930) is a singer, composer, artist, and television host. ... Stairway to Heaven is a famous and influential song by the British rock group Led Zeppelin. ...
Willy has one other major redeeming feature as far as I am concerned, and that is his fascination with strange and bizarre instruments (one of my own pet fascinations).
From an early age Willy had taken a dislike to John, to the point of physical violence, so quite how they ever got together in the first place is a bit of a mystery.
I'm not entirely sure what Willy is up to at the moment, although he can sometimes be tracked down with his "friends" performing acoustic gigs.
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