From faithful solo sets to Television-indebted deconstructions, 2013 has been a renaissance to the fingerstyle guitar. And more so than any year,... America, The Primitive: 5 New Guitar Records That ...

You can’t talk about American Primitive without talking about John Fahey. And you can’t talk about John Fahey without talking about his hometown of Takoma Park. For Fahey, whose first recordings on ...

Just as folk music was exploding on the counter-culture scene in the 1960s, John Fahey started playing solo, steel-string acoustic guitar. But he was no folk musician. “He hated the folk audiences,” ...

You might think you've heard everything that's possible to conjure up on a guitar, but these five American primitivism ...

The first volume of Tompkins Square's series Imaginational Anthem stands as a high-water mark of the contemporary American Primitive guitar movement. This is volume three. Save this story Save this ...

Guitarist Glenn Jones is one of the premier purveyors of the deceptively named American Primitive school of guitar. First presented to the public by independent-music innovator John Fahey, the style ...

The founding father of "American primitive guitar," who died in 2001, receives a posthumous homage from the label he founded. By Billboard Staff The founding father of “American primitive guitar,” who ...

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I learned the Leo Kottke tune "The Fisherman" from a guy who played guitar in a cafe in Corvallis, Ore. I used to go there for breakfast on Sunday, and I'd watch his finger-work while I ate my omelet.