Bob Hadley was first played on NTS on 2 August 2019. Songs played include Reflections On English Bay and Come All Ye Fair And Tender Maidens.

Chances are, if you've come across the music of Bob Hadley, it will be by way of Celtic Reverie, the track included in the seminal first volume of Tompkins Square's Imaginational Anthems series. However, between 1973 and 1980, Bob released three Takoma-influenced albums of finger style guitar, augmented with some nifty bottleneck: Raven, Tunes from the Well and On the Trail of the Questing Beast, all on Stefan Grossman's Kicking Mule label. The albums constituted a body of work any self-respecting acoustic guitarist would be proud of, with melodic original compositions sitting seamlessly side by side with traditional tunes and the occasional carefully chosen cover. Contemporary reviews bear this out: Guitar Magazine of London called him "a genius of melody, extolling the virtues of his haunting sound". Meanwhile, Guitar Player described him as "a fingerpicking talent on a par with anyone recording today".