Tuesday, March 30, 2010

they stay the same age while you get older

i have listened to this npr broadcast by singer-songwriter, will stratton, so many times that i have to post a link and the discarded toe nail clippings of my opinion about it...

i listen right now...to an earnest young man that i surely never was....that was so unfashionable when i passed through the narrow slit of golden chronological limelight [+/- 21-27yrs.] that it seems absolutely refreshing to me, but must be de rigueur to the much less sarcastic younger generation---or perhaps theirs is an encoded sarcasm?

he plays guitar as well as john fahey ever did, even approaching leo kottke territory; but his fingerpicking never upstages his unpretentious light tenor voice! already, in will stratton at 22 years old,  i find the complete musical package...solid songwriting, technically virtuous american primative guitar stylings that don't scream for attention, and an honest voice....listen for him in a few years!

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