Browse by tag fingerstyle

Christoph Bruhn
Chandelier

2016 # american primitive, fingerstyle

In between Robbie Basho reissues and rarities, the Grass-Tops-Recordings label from Minneapolis, MN drops one or another fine solo guitar album every now and then. This time it's the second album by Christoph Bruhn, touring partner of the labels …

Waswas
Attempting Levitation

2015 # american primitive, fingerstyle, acoustic guitar, italy

Waswas is Alessandro Denti from Monza in Italy. It's always a pleasure to receive contributions of solo guitar music. Denti's music reminds me more on the solo guitar pieces by guitarists like George Cromarty, Scott Witte, Daniel Hecht or Bob …

John Hulburt
Opus III

1972 # american primitive, fingerstyle

The Tompkins Square label is well known as an important entity for reissuing lost records and reactivating careers (Mark Fossom, Max Ochs, Don Bikoff) as well as kickstart careers for young musicians.(Frank Fairfield, William Tyler, Daniel Bachman, R …

Johnny Young
II

2015 # american primitive, folk, fingerstyle, solo guitar

Chicago based guitarist Johnny Young offers a cassette of fine old school fingerstyle guitar via the Voyager Golden Records label from Portland, OR. So far this seems to be the only release of this label, so chances are you've never heard of either o …

Samuel Gray Edmondson
Suite

2014 # american primitive, fingerstyle, acoustic guitar, folk

A lovely 4 track EP by a, to me unknown guitar player from the US East Coast. This is basically a 12 minute composition, divided into four pieces. Wonderful picking style similar to James Blackshaw. So it's less the country blues picking and more …

Toby Hay
Marteg EP

2014 # solo guitar, fingerstyle, folk, american primitive

Welsh fingerstyle guitarist Toby Hay crossed my internet browsing paths last year, but it didn't struck a chord with me back in those days. He's a classical guitar trained musician and so his technique is great, but the music was sounding ver …