Browse by tag American Primitive

Lac La Belle
A Friend Too Long

2014 # old time folk, americana, country, folk, american primitive

Every time I get back from the United States into my cozy little German town, I realize how big America is, how much music is going on there, and how many amazing musicians collaborate, compete and dream the American dream of making a living doing wh …

Sarah Louise
Field Guide

2014 # american primitive, folk

Sarah Henson learned to play guitar and banjo at the foot of the black mountains in North Carolina. That's how the press text I've found, starts. Under the name Sarah Louise, she released two beautiful folk albums and especially her latest re …

dfbm #65 ~ Looking West

# american primitive, mixtape, solo guitar, psych folk

Welcome to a new two hours long program. It's a compilation of most the music that I discovered over the last months. Many new artists are included as well as some classics. Most of them fit under the umbrella of John Fahey's coined label &qu …

Gregory Rago ~ Sophie Blanchard Falls to Her Death

2008 # american primitive, psych folk, instrumental

Gregory "Georgie" Rago (born 1959) is a New Jersey mobster and "soldier" in the DeCavalcante crime family. That makes a good opening line, but is wrong. The Gregory Rago I want to introduce to you is a guitarist from Baltimore …

Nathan Golub ~ Ellerbee River Blues

2014 # american primitive, solo guitar

Nathan Golub hails from Durham, NC and he just released a really nice cassette on the new found label GFR Tapes. Golub's fingers wander over the fretboard of his acoustic and electric guitar, like if it's the easiest thing to do. He picke …

Magnus Dewi ~ Earth Plates

2014 # american primitive, solo guitar

Superb American Primitive guitar compositions from France. David Durand aka Magnus Dewi recently opened for Daniel Bachman in Paris, FR* and in July he released his solo debut album, after playing for years in bands! He walks confidently through …

Justin Pigott, Peter Bonneman, Crystalline Roses
Split

2009 # american primitive, solo guitar, lofi

This release is mind-blowing for several reasons and I don't know where to begin, laying out some of the facts that I found. Maybe it's enough to mention Fahey as the Godfather of solo acoustic guitar to make you interested in this. It would be en …

William Tyler ~ Blue Ash Montgomery

2014 # american primitive, solo guitar, avantgarde

Funded by a Kickstarter campaign, Lightning Records out of the "desert" of Los Angeles recently releasend the first batch of a quarterly tape edition and fanzine. Their goal is to bring Rock 'n Roll back in peoples life (what ever this …

Nick Schillace ~ Landscape and People / Box Canyon

2005/2008 # american primitive, solo guitar, folk

With all the press about american primitivism and John Fahey I miss one name the most. It's Nick Schillace. I don't know why he remain unmentioned I can only assume that he was a bit too early releasing his solo guitar work. Also his John Fah …