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Santa Barbara, CA, designer F.J. McMahon released a rare recording, Spirit from the Golden Juice, in the past due ’60s in the easygoing, though reserved and somewhat dark, folk-rock, early vocalist/songwriter style.

Although Archie Fisher is a legendary amount in the Scottish folk music globe — everybody’s beloved singer and an enormously influential existence both musically and philosophically — he has remained largely unknown to the higher pop music mainstream. As the mainstream’s a poorer place for this, one gets the theory …

Influential British isles guitarist Mike Cooper is normally primarily seen as a folk-blues guitarist and singer/songwriter, though his wide variety of work can’t be so easily described. He’s also a celebrated improviser and digital musician. Furthermore, he creates audio installations and radio artwork; he’s a videographer, journalist, and music historian; …

Baltimore, MD, based singer/songwriter Lawrence Lanahan spent a decade studying music prior to starting his own profession in it in age 29. DJing in university, learning jazz with guitarist Carl Filipiak, focusing on his master’s thesis “The Public Signifying of Musical Improvisation,” working an after-school music plan for children, and …

Had been Pentangle a folk group, a folk-rock group, or a thing that resists classification? They could not be known as a rock and roll & roll work; they didn’t make use of electric instruments frequently, and had been constructed around two virtuoso guitarists, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, who …

Robbie Basho was minimal celebrated from the trio of ’60s classical guitar virtuosos who established themselves while innovators within the Takoma label (the other two were John Fahey and Leo Kottke). You can surmise why Basho discovered a natural house on Takoma. Like Fahey and Kottke, he was identified to …

Uk folk singer/songwriter and guitarist Cliff Aungier was raised in the Croyton section of South London. Inspired by American blues legends like Big Costs Broonzy and Blind Lemon Jefferson aswell as fellow folk performers Ralph McTell and Bert Jansch, he became a significant performer amidst the burgeoning U.K. folk picture. …

Jacqui McShee had been singing traditional folk in Uk folk night clubs when she began dealing with virtuosic acoustic guitarist John Renbourne in 1966. A yr later, she decided to sign up for Pentangle, a music group Renbourne was developing with equally skilled guitarist Bert Jansch, bassist Danny Thompson, and …

Probably one of the most important numbers in contemporary Uk folk, Bert Jansch brought an unparalleled mix of virtuosity and eclecticism towards the classical guitar, both like a single act and an integral person in Pentangle. Also a talented songwriter and influencing (if gruff) vocalist, he published dark and sparse …

Dave Swarbrick was among England’s most influential fiddlers. As an associate of Fairport Convention, between 1970 and 1979, Swarbrick was instrumental within the band’s change from Byrds-style folk-rock music group to its concentrate on upgrading the jigs and reels on THE UK. While continuing to execute on the Fairport Annual …