| Various Artists / Berkeley Guitar |
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| Album: | Berkeley Guitar | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Oct 2006 | |
| Label: | Tompkins Square | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-01-28 | Pull Date: | 2007-04-01 |
| Week Ending: | Mar 25 | Mar 4 | Feb 25 | Feb 18 | Feb 11 | Feb 4 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 06, 2007: | At Your Local Dive The Augur Of Deviation | 4. | Mar 20, 2007: | At Your Local Dive Lonely Tuesday Ramble, The Augur Of Deviation | |
| 2. | Aug 16, 2007: | At Your Local Dive What Once Was Will Be | 5. | Mar 03, 2007: | Cincinnati Kid The Augur Of Deviation | |
| 3. | May 01, 2007: | At Your Local Dive (live performance with The Finches) What Once Was Will Be | 6. | Feb 28, 2007: | JaEran Mukamel (ambivalent hardcore) The Augur Of Deviation |
| Album Review |
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| Natalie Ruiz Tofano Reviewed 2007-01-24 | ||
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LOCAL! Comp of three Berkeley-based guitar soloists: Sean Smith, Adam Snider, Matt Baldwin. Beautiful collection of instrumental, fingerstyle folk guitar, rooted in “American blues and rural guitar genres”, drawing from guitar soloist scene in Berkeley during the 60s i.e. John Fahey, Robbie Basho. Smith seems very improvisational and experimental in his compositions. Snider has a more traditional blues sound than the others. Baldwin feels more careful, and creates beautiful compositions. Recording debuts for Snider and Baldwin. Favs – 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 11 Sean Smith 1 – Beautiful composition; starts out soft/simple, builds layer upon layer. Long and definitely worth it! (7:30) 2 – Soft & pensive, changes pace in the middle; song feels like its telling a story 3 – Slow & sleepy, more traditional folk sounding than his other two; towards the middle the song really imitates falling asleep/fading out Adam Snider 4 – Cheery and bright; complex variations of traditional sounding riffs 5 – Bluesy w/mostly guitar picking & hardly any full chords, beautiful & catchy. 6 – Beautiful sound, very slow and distant. 7 – Solemn & darker than others; transitions into amazing, fast-paced finger-picking sections Matt Baldwin 8 – Careful and sweet; has a traditional folk, roaming and wandering quality 9 – Complex variations, catchy and light feeling with a bluesy twang to it 10 – Softer & more serious; w/bits of crazy, more experimental sounding pickings 11 – Lovely & sweet just like the title; changes to a slower pace toward the end | ||
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