Mick Softley
1 record in the archive · 1965
About the artist
Mick Softley (Michael Softley, born 26 September 1939 in Essex; died 1 September 2017, aged 77) was an English folk singer-songwriter and guitarist, a prominent figure in the British folk revival of the 1960s who founded a folk club at The Spinning Wheel in Hemel Hempstead and taught the young Donovan Leitch cross-picking guitar at informal sessions in St Albans; Donovan called him a major influence and, once famous, brought him to the attention of producers and labels. Softley later moved to Northern Ireland in 1984, where he continued to perform and to write poetry. "The War Drags On"…