YES Jack Rose was so brilliant, Kensington Blues is prob like one of my most-played albums over the past year-ish, perfect to throw on while cooking or cleaning

ayy 10 month later response haha

didnt expect to see this bumped today!

Kompys you should review KB when you're feelin inspired

yesss

Album Rating: 3.5

did you guys end up listening to Paredes?

I know little about American primitivism and what it's supposed to sound like, so forgive this review because I don't know what I'm talking about.

So what we have is Kottke here grinding away at his acoustic guitar; fourteen short pieces that come and go without any time to develop. I don't know if the purpose of the album is to create an atmosphere or if it's just to show off his chops; if the former, the album fails, as the songwriting is disjointed and random, and has no time to come together and form anything as a whole; if the latter, the album is wildly successful, as he's immensely skilled and it really shows.

So basically it's like a prog album!

I WISH I WAS JOKING

Album Rating: 3.5

Hmm I forgot about this one. Nice!

need to check this hard

indeed
also highly recommend fahey's america which is one of my all time faves

yeah I gotta check way more classic American primitive/solo guitar artists. Lately I'm jamming a lot of more recent drone/ambient Americana that was def inspired by a lot of this older stuff.

hell yeah. recently ive been going back even further and checking out the country/blues/folk music of the 20s-40s who influenced fahey and the others. ive neglected that stuff despite loving country from the 50s onward so its been quite fruitful

My ratings don't reflect it but I love a lot of old school blues, in undergrad I was president of my school's radio's Blues department for a few semesters 😎

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