Remember Paul Simon’s ‘Anji’? Remember Pentangle?
Call it what you want–New Acoustic, Fingerpicking, American Primitive, Folk Baroque–there’s a whole world out there of intelligent and sophisticated. virtuosic guitar music fingerpicked on a steel string guitar, using old blues and country techniques, full of fascinating directions.
276: Leo Kottke, ‘Eggtooth’ (New Acoustic)
200: Bert Jansch, “Avocet”
Sometimes we need a soundtrack for real life – not great music, just sincerely good background music. Like life.
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