Browse by tag american primitive

Sean Proper
Canal Machinery

2013 # american primitive, acoustic guitar, psych folk

Dark 12 and 6 string guitar tunes from "The Sunshine State" Florida. This is a very promising recording by a young guy from Sarasota, FL playing fingerstyle steelstring guitar in the New School way. I have no idea if there is something …

Dyllan Hersey
s/t

2012 # american primitive, folk, singer-songwriter

I stumbled upon this lovely album by Dyllan Hersey from the west coast of America. It could be a standard singer-songwriter album, but wether it's her voice or her fingerpicking guitar style, that makes it a bit more outstanding. Or it's …

Mixtape #54
Foreshadowing

# mixtape, american primitive, folk, americana, lo-fi

This is a two hour program of lofi folk, hill music, americana and strumming on wooden guitars in general; broadcasted from the past into the future. The theme is just made up by choosing this great found photo for the coverartwork, which shows, besi …

The Poor Farm & Rag Lore of Matthew Russell Boteilho – Interview

# american primitive, americana, folk, feature, interview

Matthew Russell Boteilho is a young guitar player and graphic designer from Houston, TX. I guess, meeting him in person on a concert could end up in night nerding around about music, art and culture. So for this interview you should take some time. T …

Best of 2012
Folk Edition

# bestof2012, bestof, american primitive

Here we are, survivors of 2012 apocalypse. I guess a lot of people facing a personal change this year. I hope it was for the good. And with music most things are easier to handle. That's why this and the following lists are more a selection …

Black Twig Pickers & Steve Gunn
Natch 1

2012 # folk, old time folk, american primitive, hill music, banjo

I already posted the NATCH recording of Zachary Cale and here is the first in this serie, by The Black Twig Pickers & Steve Gunn. It starts with a droning Hill Music/String Band thing on fiddle, banjo and guitar and with the second track Salt …

Matt LeGroulx
Solo Guitar

2012 # american primitive, guitar, acoustic

The following review says it all and I'll just keep it lazy and post it here. What would it sound like if John Fahey played songs by Pavement, Deerhoof, Gordon Lightfoot and Ariel Pink? Well, something like this. Matt LeGroulx is mos …

Sam Moss

# american primitive, folk, interview, feature

Sam Moss is one of the new young guitarplayers who HAS been featured here a lot. He recently curated the awesome Imaginational Anthem Compilation and is on tour as part of the Howling Kettles String-Duo and release as a solo artist too. Time to ask s …

Mixtape #49
Play For The Spring

# american primitive, guitar, psych folk, acoustic, americana, mixtape

Here we are with a new mixtape, centered around the so called American Primitve Guitar style. This is an extremly bisased collection, based on my personal taste and contains well known stuff, some unknown guitarists and lacks of a lot guitarists whic …