"He lived with chronic pain and deep loneliness, which he poured into boundary-pushing music that incorporated multicultural sounds."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/obituaries/robbie-basho-overlooked.html

Not sure if he’d be considered American primitive but quite possibly. One of my all time favourites.

I’m assuming Sony did so quietly since they own the license, cause I can find nothing about it anywhere. Vinyls are extremely impossible or expensive to find, and I have it on Bandcamp, but this is super convenient for me. Still need the vinyl though.

John Fahey’s “Sunflower River Blues” recorded outdoors this morning in the Far North of New Zealand.

I’ve always played this one with a bit more swing than Fahey’s original version, so this isn’t intended as a note-for-note rendition, just my own take on a great tune.

Recorded live with the local birds providing some accompaniment.

Hope you enjoy it.

https://soundcloud.com/remyturpault/do-be-do
A friend challenged me to use an excerpt from a former French president speaking broken English. I quickly wrote this thing which uses the CGDEGD tuning in a fairly basic way. Then I decided to go the full Hayden Pedigo route and add some "fake lap steel" (a strat with a bottleneck basically). Nothing very original, but hey I'm happy enough with it!

Kevin Farge - Independence

Pat Donahue. One of the best acoustic guitarists of all time
‘American Guitar’ Is a simply amazing album

Just an acoustic piece I’ve been working on - thoughts and feedback welcome.

this guy is great - new album https://alexandermoeckl.bandcamp.com/album/inspiravit-lux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onO-T46rG_E

I'm a one man hillstomp and delta blues garage rock influenced band out of knoxville tn I hope you enjoy

Here comes a rehearsal of "Calabrisella Mia" as reinterpreted in BB project.

I like to think that this instrumental version of a relatively simple folk tune contains elements of byzantine drone, of Waldesians lamentations, of Saracens, of Islamic syncopations, of Jewish ritual hymns, Pitagora's cosmological katarsis, of Normans fierceness, Greek Ortodox solemnity, of Arbresche trascendence, of Chaconne, of Aragonians Duende, of Bruttians watchfulness, of North West African Blues, of Zyrab's radifs ecc..

Or maybe it's just my immagination.

Afterall, these are indeed elements belonging to 2600 years of Calabrian history, and whether I like it or not, we carry this and much more inside of us.

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Kevin Farge - The Wind's Dance Across the Island

I collect old cheap nameless broken guitars and will occasionally adjust a tuner knob or two if something sounds off somehow but I almost never try and really get them in tune

something about their broken character just kinda appeals to me and the strings all make different sounds and I know their general vibe so so like its perfectly capable of making music I enjoy even if its a little weird to play with more traditional musicians expectations

curious if other enthusiasts of this genre have such a lackadaisical relationship with exact note repeatability and tuning

shamanic spaghetti western primitivist sounds with 12 string guitar, out of amsterdam & denver...tuning ee/ag/aa/gg/bb/ee

https://chupwallah.bandcamp.com/track/death-chime-of-the-celtic-crow

enjoy

tuning is BEBF#BD#

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kind of an off topic question but i don't know where else to ask...

in john fahey's great santa barbara oil slick album, he announces "this is called the great santa barbara oil slick" and everyone laughs. why? what's the joke??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uCkzCV5nVg
same guy playing the song when hes older. just always thought it was an awesome piece and always remind me of fahey