Sandy Bull

A long time before Ry Cooder, Leo Kottke, Richard Thompson, among others were impressing listeners making use of their capability to hop from genre to genre, Sandy Bull glided from classical and jazz to cultural music and rock and roll & move with grace and verve. Accompanied on his initial two albums by renowned jazz drummer Billy Higgins, Bull created a number of the initial expanded instrumental compositions for electric guitar that incorporated components of folk, jazz, and Indian and Arabic-influenced dronish settings. Not “rock and roll” by any extend from the creativity, it’s nevertheless easy to understand that it might experienced an influence in the rock and roll musicians who started incorporating eclectic and Middle Eastern sensibilities to their music a couple of years afterwards. After his debut, Bull extended his arsenal in the classical guitar and banjo to add oud, bass, and guitar. After his second record, nevertheless, his recordings had been less concentrated and less amazing. In the 1970s, he slipped away from music altogether because of drug complications, although he started recording once again in the past due ’80s. On Apr 11, 2001, Sandy Bull passed away of lung cancers at his house just beyond Nashville.