Archie Fisher may have brought the wrong guitar – Thelma instead of Louise, apparently – but not having his top "box" to hand certainly didn't hamper his ability to couch songs in the most attractive of six-string orchestrations.
Fisher was one of the pioneers of the British folk scene who married the finger-picking magic of American folk-blues heroes such as Big Bill Broonzy and Brownie McGhee to material from closer to home, and more decades on than he'll thank me for mentioning and, despite waves of subsequent acoustic guitar wizards, he remains a masterly presence on the instrument.
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