When Nic Jones nearly died in a car crash in 1982 it seemed all but impossible that the English folk legend would ever perform again.
When Nic Jones nearly died in a car crash in 1982 it seemed all but impossible that the English folk legend would ever perform again.
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Kate Molleson
Then in 2010, after 28 years of quiet rehabilitation, he got up unannounced at the Sidmouth Folk Festival and sang a couple of his old songs.
Now for the past two years the 66-year-old has been taking tentative steps back on the road. He's frail yet: on Monday he walked on stage with a heavy limp, no guitar in hand (he never regained dexterity after the accident) and read his lyrics, sometimes falteringly, from a music stand. But the weathered voice was unmistakably, wonderfully his.
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