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Chris Leslie’s first contact with folk music began in the first ’60s, when he discovered the task from the Watersons and Martin Carthy. Although he was attracted to many tools — and perfected many of them on the virtuoso level as his profession continued — it had been for the …

Whippersnapper were a four-piece acoustic music group formed by Dave Swarbrick, Chris Leslie, Kevin Dempsey, and Martin Jenkins in Northamptonshire during 1983. Although non-e of others could quite equate to Swarbrick’s long encounter or near-legendary position, each one of the others brought something considerable to the desk first from the …