Name: Solo Guitar
Brand: Mark Fosson

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

dc685

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-07-28

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

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UPC / Barcode

0781484068518

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Mark Fosson

Genre GB

Folk

Label GB

Drag City

Mark Fosson has been playing music for nearly 50 years now. Solo Guitar is the fifth album released under his name in all that time, which gives an insight into the nature of his music; when it is time for Mark to commit to something underneath his fingers, regardless of whether that is after two years, ten or twenty, that’s what’s right. Solo Guitar sees Mark continuing to use his chops and enthusiasm to wander musically, drawing up pieces of sparkling, nimble fingerstyle with an eclectic vision. As the title implies, this time Mark is focused on the austerity of the guitar, plain and simple, to bring out the music. Whether on six- or twelve-string, his sure touch is transported by crystal-clear recordings that belie their down-home origins, as they catch the contours of every string as it is pressed, bent and struck - a full-bodied sound projecting soulful dips down into bass strings and shimmering upper register runs with equal power. The air around these performances is coloured with curving waves of steel-stringed beauty and the pungency of free- wheeling wit and recollection. The songs are from all over the place: The bristling, fluent action around the neck on Still Ain’t Got No Home - a song he wrote when returning east from his long sojourn in California - evokes a traveling energy, motoring down the road in a way that never really ends. This is one of Mark’s favourites of all that he’s written and it is clear why: the golden, eternal promise of the guitar is ebulliently, transcendently delivered. Mark Fosson’s Solo Guitar is a masterful work, the kind it takes a lifetime to assemble.

Solo Guitar

Music GB