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Ewan Dobson: Ewan Dobson III

Read "Ewan  Dobson III" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Guitarist Ewan Dobson did not so much emerge from the house that Leo Kottke, John Fahey and Peter Lang built as construct his own wing and take command of it. Somewhere in that house, close to the Dobson wing, the spirit of Michael Hedges lurks, speaking from his portrait, encouraging the walls to be more percussive ...

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Yair Yona: World Behind Curtains

Read "World Behind Curtains" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Like his debut, Remember (Anova, 2010), this sophomore release from Yair Yona still features the Israeli as a guitarist paying his debts to the American Primitive and British finger-picking traditions. But the ambitious World Behind Curtains focuses, first and foremost, on Yona the composer. His compositions for an acoustic chamber ensemble move the finger-picking schools into ...

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Antoine Dufour: Sound Pictures

Read "Sound Pictures" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Superhuman acoustic guitar playing was de rigueur for the New Age music of the 1980s and '90s, though personality often suffered at the expense of technical ability. Only a few artists:, such as Leo Kottke and Michael Hedges were able to float as cream to the top of a pile of wannabes, all who could play ...

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Yair Yona: Remember

Read "Remember" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Yair Yona is a resourceful Israeli guitarist and producer, whose solo debut salutes legendary and innovative finger-picking guitarists from both sides of the Atlantic such as John Fahey, Leo Kottke and Bert Jansch. But Yona does not shy away from updating these guitarists' influential legacies and sounds, with references to modern indie post-rock groups and guitarists ...

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One Guitar, No Vocals

Label: Windham Hill Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Snorkel; Morning Is The Long Way Home; Too Fast; Three/Quarter North; Retrograde; Chamber of Commerce; From

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Leo Kottke (Private Music 82171: One Guitar, No Vocals

Read "One Guitar, No Vocals" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


A Long Way From Takoma. 6- and 12-String Guitar was the auspicious debut of guitarmeister Leo Kottke. On the heels of John Fahey, Peter Lange, and Stefan Grossman, Kottke created his debut masterpiece of acoustic wizardry that served as a template for countless acoustic guitarists after him. In the 25 years between the release of 6- ...

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Peculiaroso

Label: Chief Records
Released: 1991

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That's What

Label: Chief Records
Released: 1990


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