On new album ‘Lifetime Achievement’, the 75-year-old troubadour weighs his accomplishments. He talks to Kevin E G Perry about love, death and why being covered by Johnny Cash is worth more than his Grammy

Concluding our series of first-hand accounts of life in tents, Patrick Smith recalls the way that festivals such as End of the Road and Primavera have helped him through bad times, from heartbreak to grief to crushing depression