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On Sunny War’s sixth studio offering, Anarchic Gospel, she captures the intangible with her idiosyncratic acoustic guitar fingerpicking style, deceptively simple-looking fretwork, or organic compositional bent.
This article originally appeared in the March/April 1993 issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine and was excerpted for the the September/October 2020 issue | By Stephanie P. Ledgin For more than three decades, Arthel “Doc” Watson has been America’s most renowned and influential folk guitar stylist. Now about to turn 70, he’s mostly retired, staying off the road except for a…
Eric Lee (Solidarity 662) is absolutely correct in deploring the singing of Delilah by some Welsh rugby fans. Unfortunately, popular music, folk and blues is riddled with countless examples of deeply misogynistic songs.
The acquisition brings both brands under the umbrella of BandLab Technologies, the company that acquired the rights to, and subsequently relaunched, Harmony in 2017
Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, was a folk-blues giant whose music and persona transformed American culture. He sang what he lived (poverty, prison, violence) in songs like ‘Gallow’s Pole’ and ‘Black Betty,’ but