Georges Brassens was the wry, guitar-playing poet-laureate of postwar French chanson, setting his own often mischievous or philosophical verse to deceptively simple melodies delivered in an unhurried baritone. His model of the literary singer-songwriter — one guitar, one voice, a lyric built like a short story — became a direct template for the Nova Cançó and cantautor movements across the Spanish-speaking world.

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1964

Les Copains d'AbordGeorges Brassens