Browse by tag solo guitar

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 …

Sean Proper ~ We are Wounds

2014 # american primitive, solo guitar

Sunshine State Florida is probably one of the least places that comes to mind when you spin some Basho or Fahey records. Proper proved that when he stated in an interview I did with him a year ago: I felt very disconnected from the music …

Daniel Bachman ~ Orange Co. Serenade

2014 # american primitive, solo guitar

The busiest guitar slinger in business right now is Daniel Bachman and after he got picked up by Tompkin Square Records he shot himself into your dad's favorite radio station (yes, WFMU, but I mean NPR) and several times around the world (if worl …

Daniel Bachman ~ s/t

2014 # american primitive, folk, solo guitar, acoustic guitar

Daniel Bachman is working hard to stay on top of business. Touring the US, recording a bunch of tracks, touring Europe then back to the US and so on. And in the meantime, while slowley the PR machinery is starting for his next new album on Bathetic R …

Laboule ~ Refugio

2013 # singer-songwriter, solo guitar, american primitive, folk, italy

Laboule is Paolo Novellino from Northern Italy that means somewhere around the mighty Alps. Robbie Basho's "Rocky Mountain Raga" seemed to change him and he focused again on guitar. Refugio is a relaxed folk album between songs and solo acoustic …