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01. ROBBIE BASHO - Redwood Ramble
02. ROBBIE BASHO - Fandango
03. ROBBIE BASHO - (Variations on) ‘Easter’
04. ROBBIE BASHO - Rocky Mountain Raga
05. ROBBIE BASHO - Cathedrals et Fleur de Lis
06. ROBBIE BASHO - German Chocolate Cake
07. ROBBIE BASHO - Silky Jane
08. ROBBIE BASHO - The Girl and the Lotus
09. ROBBIE BASHO - Pavan India
10. ROBBIE BASHO - Variations on Claire de Lune
11. ROBBIE BASHO - California Raga
ARTIST
TITLE
Bonn Ist Supreme
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
WEAVIL 029CD WEAVIL 029CD
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RELEASE DATE
7/8/2008

2022 restock. Subtitled: Live at the Kulturforum, Bonn, Germany, November 24, 1980. Another in the Wooden Weavil series, this time an unreleased live Robbie Basho recording from Germany in 1980. Robbie Basho was one of the great pioneers of the acoustic steel string guitar in the U.S., along with Leo Kottke and John Fahey in the 1960s. This program appears to have been recorded in one go. Robbie scatters his Americana numbers throughout, beginning with "Redwood Ramble," and ending with "California Raga." This date finds Robbie in fine fettle, his playing sharpened by the intensity of touring, his mood seems ebullient, at times (as on "Fandango") he comes off like John Lee Hooker's sun-kissed cousin, stomping furiously along to his playing. There is sweetness to his material, yes, but this is not, as Jack Rose put it, "music for wineries." There is the galloping muscularity of Basho's playing, coupled with the sheer hugeness of his sound; the fearless employment of dissonance as part of his musical make-up; a love for the unexpected chord change. Robbie was a voracious and uncompromising player. Basho's singing was as integral to who he was as his guitar playing, and when he opened his mouth, he filled the room with sound. Say what you like about his lyrics, no one can accuse Basho of dilettantism, of dabbling, or of trying something on merely for effect. Whatever bag he was in, he was in all the way. Liner notes from Glenn Jones and Stephen Basho-Junghans, and beautifully remastered by Glenn Jones.