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Rich Osborn
The years since John Fahey and Robbie Basho trailblazed a totally new and serious approach to the acoustic steel string guitar as a concert instrument have been dominated by Fahey style double thumbing and Michael Hedges style tapping techniques. Rich now takes up the raga style of free improvisation first created by Robbie Basho, bringing his own lifelong appreciation of world music traditions as well as Western classical techniques and influences to the mix. You will hear then touches of both Indian ragas and Bach, Japanese koto and Native American, as well as echoes of the landscapes of California and the old West.