Wooden Guitar
"A collection of drifting, stream of consciousness tracks demonstrating the great hallucinatory possibilities of this tradition-soaked and very American form." -- The WireFall 2008 marks the fifth anniversary of Locust Music's inaugural Wooden Guitar compilation, an inspired excursion into the creases and folds of modern deltadelica and a thinly veiled homage to the great Takoma compilations of yore in which guitarists could sit back, work those muscles in their fingers, and go the extra musical distance. Four of the great worldwide guitarists--Germany's Steffen Basho-Junghans, Seattle's Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), Japan's Tetuzi Akiyama, and Virginia's Jack Rose--give us a fresh look at a very old instrument with gloriously stretched-out solo compositions.