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The boy admits that it is, sending mom into a fit in which she calls banjo-playing “a pollution of the blood, like leprosy,” inherited in this case from Preston’s long-gone father, a habitual strummer.

From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2019

On his latest album, 2016’s gentle “Ape in Pink Marble,” the singer and strummer sounds happily liberated from the pressure to serve as a mascot for some idea of modern psychedelia.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2018

On the nine-minute Cat Stevens strummer “Jackson Park Express”, Al relates one of the great love stories of our time.

From Time • Jul. 17, 2014

He is now hot property for playing someone who isn't; the strummer with soul but no sales, the man who wasn't Bob Dylan.

From The Guardian • May 23, 2013

He felt like a clumsy strummer seated at a dark shining grand piano, which he knows is capable of every glory of rolling music, yet he can only elicit a few haphazard chords.

From Where the Blue Begins by Morley, Christopher