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Basket Full of Dragons on Paghead Nation

“If John Fahey is the Mississippi River of “American Primitive” acoustic steel-string guitar playing, Robbie Basho is the Ganges. If Fahey is the Everest, Basho is the Fuji. Though overshadowed in life and death by his fellow Mid-Atlantic area native, Basho—he was born Daniel R. Robinson, Jr. in 1940 and died at age 45 in 1986—has been the subject…

Buck Curran’s Immortal Light on Dusted Magazine

“Guitar tones linger and reverberate with a mystical translucence: you can hear Curran’s admiration for guitar gnostic Robbie Basho in the notes and spaces between them. Yet perhaps the most striking passage is a borrowed one, a cover of Creedence’s “Bad Moon Rising,” whose acoustic setting doesn’t blunt apocryphal imagery but rather sharpens it. Fogerty…