does horsemouth play american primitive guitar?

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...or APG as he has seen it.

but does he? what’s the definition? could be.

'every man do his thing a little way different' - there's a kottke clip where he hails fahey as the founder of it and mentions charles ives. but if everybody cooked with the same recipe - something like 'solo steel strung acoustic guitar incorporating classical music elements into old blues and folk tunes' - then it wouldn't it get dull and same-y very quickly?

the guy at dying for bad music seems to be able to find acres of this stuff (and most of it is fairly decent and interesting) . but basho is not fahey is not lang is not kottke - even fahey is not fahey (look at his later electric phase). and horsemouth definitely prefers some things to others.

the day before yesterday horsemouth walked up through the valley of the agapemonians to walthamstow and bought books - a history of mermaids in art (with illustrations - down boy) and a. alvarez’s bluffers guide to samuel beckett in the fontana modern masters edition (sally army opposite the william morris museum - one pound). he could have doubled down - four books/ CDs/ DVDs for a pound - but as you know he has storage/ hoarding issues.

he was due to be babysitting (but the gig got cancelled - maybe tomorrow). yesterday he helped howard move some stuff and an old friend came to visit (and pick up a copy of musicians of bremen volume one). sunday the clerkenwell festival with andrew minty (probably).