Uncut – March 2024
Talking Heads, Bob Marley, The Waterboys, Kim Gordon, Julia Holter, John Fahey, Phosphorescent and more star in the March 2024 issue of Uncut
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Talking Heads, Bob Marley, The Waterboys, Kim Gordon, Julia Holter, John Fahey, Phosphorescent and more star in the March 2024 issue of Uncut
The March 2024 issue of Uncut stars Talking Heads, Bob Marley, Kim Gordon, Waterboys, Phosophorescent, Julia Holter, John Fahey, Mud and more
D’Agostino uses unorthodox tunings, percussion, and other techniques to open up new vistas on the instrument. Yet his compositions feel driven by melody.
Mariano Rodriguez is a far-southern representative of the Takoma school of acoustic-guitar playing. Based in Bariloche, Argentina, he’s been recording original tunes rooted in the same country-blues loam as John Fahey since sometime in the aughts. Alternating between a six-string acoustic and Weissenborn lap-steel instruments, Rodriguez displays an easy command of their emotive and evocative potentialities. His playing is replete with swooping slides, woozy dissonances and fingerpicked melodies that might wander a ways, but they always end up right where they’re supposed to go.
“It’s my most precious possession,” Max Ochs says as he retrieves a piece of broken metal from a guitar case — a scrap of trash he found on a dirt road in New Mexico in 1967 that he’s been toting arou...