https://www.thesoundprojector.com/2007/04/04/perpetual-motion/ Better Listening Through Imagination since 1996 Sun, 01 Aug 2021 12:54:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.thesoundprojector.com/2007/04/04/perpetual-motion/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:22:04 +0000 http://www.thesoundprojector.com/2007/04/04/perpetual-motion/#comment-6 Have to agree with your annoyance re. namechecking of the “Takoma Tradition.” It seems any post-adolescent who can just about grow a beard these days fancies himself as a new finger-picking John Fahey or Robbie Basho. I don’t deny that some good contemporary music might possibly come out of these references / genre borrowing but I have the suspicion that such lazy alignment bypasses actual hard-won understanding of musical tradition and technical “chops”!

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