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 WBEZ (blog) | The Lin Brehmer InterviewWBEZ (blog)I've shared the mesmerizing musical mantra of John Fahey's American primitive guitar. They may not know how much my brothers and I enjoy sitting on a porch together with David on banjo, John on mandolin, and yours truly on a 1972 Guild D-25 singing ... |
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| Wry (finger) styleLocal IQAt that time, in the 1960s, the solo fingerstyle guitarist didn't exist on the cultural map. Singer/songwriters like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez were in the early stages of carving significant careers, but acoustic guitar players like John Fahey and ... |
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 Irish Times | Velvet goldmineIrish TimesYet he is more childlike than childish: a musician whose influences (The Velvet Underground, John Fahey, Plastic Ono Band, the “hilarious” Withnail and I ) and expansive sense of music goes far beyond his years, and whose sense of enthusiasm fuels his ... |
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| An Interview with New York City Singer/Songwriter, Sam YieldExaminer.comListening to Mississippi John Hurt is what made me want to play guitar in the first place. John Fahey and Nick Drake were also big influences as guitarists. I don't think I ever would have started singing if it weren't for people like Joanna Newsom and ... |
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| ROTARY CLUB shows off its SWINE on FEB. 28thAltsounds.com“When I first started coming up with material for what would become Rotary Club, I imagined a sound that was a mix of John Fahey and Brian Eno,” he explains. Rotary Club's music has since evolved from the textural soundscapes that those artists would ... |
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 jambands.com | C Joynesjambands.comUK guitarist C Joynes is one of the most underrated figures to emerge from the new school of Takoma style finger picking. But the wholly unique way by which he approaches the intricacy of his instrument on his third release on Bo' Weavil should ... |
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