Lovingly mastered from old tapes found in a friend s attic this is a vintage collection of previously unreleased rarities and early works by one of the guitar s truly great innovators.
The attic tapes renbourn.
Tunes like anji are nice but not definitive showing renbourn s early style.
Folk world country style.
It raises more questions about archival.
Certainly others will hear this set and rate it lower to each his own on that.
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This is nothing less then a looking glass into the nascent brit folk scene and it s easy to see that renbourn s style that eventually led to the term folk baroque was almost fully formed if sporadic at times.
T he attic tapes is a 20 song archival hodgepodge cobbled together from early recordings of the late british guitarist john renbourn who died in march.
A vintage collection of previously unreleased recordings lovingly remastered from a series of long lost tapes dating back to the early 1960s the attic tapes is a vintage collection of previously unreleased recordings and early works by john renbourn one of guitar music s truly great innovators.
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John renbourn the attic tapes an album of early 1960s recordings by the fingerstyle pioneer offers a glimpse at his developing style.
The attic tapes.
The four stars is for the release of these tapes themselves and hearing renbourn so early without him having any thoughts to these tunes being issued.
The attic tapes lp 12 album 33 rpm john renbourn format.
The four stars is for the release of these tapes themselves and hearing renbourn so early without him having any thoughts to these tunes being issued.
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For anyone with even a passing interest in the music of john renbourn the attic tapes is an essential and absorbing collection thanks in no small part to colin hood s editing and tape transfers and to mike walker s mastering which offers a remarkable insight into the roots of one of britain s greatest guitarists and songwriters.
The riverboat label s new collection of previously unreleased home recorded tracks the attic tapes catches him just before he made his name in the early 1960s a formative period when he hashed out his mix of folk blues and baroque classical and toured the south of england with cultish innovator mac macleod.
Certainly others will hear this set and rate it lower to each his own on that.
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