"To label John Renbourn an English-folk guitarist, or Stefan Grossman an American-blues guitarist, amounts to the same: nothing. Renbourn, who's best known for his Pentangle association and fine solo albums, has played medieval, early classical, traditional, blues, and contemporary jazz compositions. Grossman, who also cut a pile of solo albums, has played classic and contemporary ragtime, Delta blues, boogie and regional American folk compositions, among others. Yet their performances share a single-mindedness that makes one music of all this eclecticism: a passion for the acoustic guitar and its infinite expressive possibilities. Their performance was not only one of the most musically exhilarating in my experience, but one of the most educational as well: a relaxed class on styles and technique and a distillation of British and American sensibilities."
The Village Voice

Two of the world's premiere acoustic guitarists join forces in this concert recorded in 1982 to define and explore the parameters of American and European folk, blues, jazz and ragtime music. Stefan Grossman and John Renbourn, play both solo and as a duo.

Titles include: Looper's Corner, The Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers, Struttin' Rag, The Assassination of John Fahey, Tightrope, Judy, Angie, White House Blues, The English Dance, Trotto, Goodbye Porkpie Hat, Candyman, Spirit Levels and Take A Whiff On Me.

vestapol 13053   $12.50