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3 weeks ago | 
acousticguitar.com | Derk Richardson |Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers |Pat Moran
“Are you floating in the cosmos, finally free from time/ While I’m down here on the highway looking for signs?” asks Heather Maloney in the title track from her new album, Exploding Star, over the light 6/8 strum of her guitar.
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2 months ago | 
acousticguitar.com | Kenny Berkowitz |Pat Moran
If, like me, you loved fingerstyle titans Teja Gerken and Doug Young’s wonderfully eclectic 2020 album Duets and Gerken’s recent solo voyage, Test of Time (released on New Year’s Day 2024), you’re almost certain to enjoy the SF Bay Area duo’s latest stellar effort, The Water Is Wide.
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2 months ago | 
acousticguitar.com | E.E. Bradman |Kenny Berkowitz |Pat Moran
At the end of a long day at work, I found out on social media that the husband of a dear friend had died after a sudden stroke. Still in disbelief and struggling to convey my sympathy in a concise Facebook comment, I happened to put on Cameron Knowler’s CRK. There was something deeply comforting about the gentle acoustic bubbling underneath the opening monologue, but the words seemed to be a scattered collage, randomly reassembled.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
acousticguitar.com | E.E. Bradman |Pat Moran |Kenny Berkowitz
Yasmin Williams’ Acadia takes its name from the concept of an idyllic, fertile place, a metaphor for the creativity and collaboration that permeate her first release on Nonesuch Records. Drawing on instruments ranging from guitars and banjos to fiddle, synth bass, and even tap shoes, Williams crafts a soundscape that is both intimate and expansive, its layered sonic palette enriched by guests like saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, singer Aoife O’Donovan, and fellow guitar virtuoso Kaki King.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
acousticguitar.com | Christopher Paul Stelling |Pat Moran |Karen Peterson |Mark Small
At first glance, Grisha Goryachev seems an unlikely torch bearer for flamenco guitar. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1977, descended from ancestors with Russian and Ukrainian lines. His forebears lived far from Andalusia, where flamenco music developed among the Romani people who migrated from India to settle in southern Spain in the ninth century.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
mountainx.com | Pat Moran |Patrick Moran
When Tropical Storm Helene swept through Western North Carolina in late September, the region’s already critical affordable housing situation immediately worsened. An Oct. 23 preliminary assessment by the N.C. Office of State Budget and Management estimates that about 126,000 homes were destroyed or damaged by the storm and that some 220,000 households will apply for assistance.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
mountainx.com | Pat Moran |Patrick Moran
“The reindeer stand for wealth and prosperity,” Andrea Kulish says. “The tree symbolizes a healthy and prosperous life.”Kulish is explaining her favorite design for the colorful pysanky eggs she crafts in her studio at Pink Dog Creative. The eggs aren’t here today, but Kulish is selling life-size, two-dimensional depictions of the Ukrainian art form on the first day of RADFest 1.0, a two-day gathering.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
acousticguitar.com | Greg Cahill |Pat Moran |Adam Perlmutter
In the late 1950s, in response to what he saw as the pretentiousness of the folk revival, fingerstylist John Fahey invented a genre of music he dubbed “American primitive”—a raw, introspective form of folk- and blues-based solo-acoustic guitar music. His acolytes, including the visionary guitarist Robbie Basho (who recorded on Fahey’s Takoma label), went on to explore the fringes of American primitivism while expanding the genre.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
mountainx.com | Pat Moran |Patrick Moran
Green roundup: Storm delays Woodfin’s Riverside Park improvements IF THE RIVER DON'T RISE: Riverside Park's cofferdam post-Helene.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
mountainx.com | Pat Moran |Patrick Moran
Asheville lifts boil water notice DRINK UP: Asheville lifts its boil water notice. Photo by Pat Moran Fifty-three days after being issued, the City of Asheville has lifted its boil water notice. At today’s morning press briefing, city spokesperson Clay Chandler reported that the city’s water department tested 120 samples over the weekend. Turbidity is under 15.
