Alongside James Blackshaw and Sir Richard Bishop, former Pelt man Jack Rose is one of the mainstays of the new wave of the Fahey/ Basho school of fingerpicking guitar. All three hark back to the dreamier, blues and folk influenced trances of Fahey’s Tacoma recordings. While Sir Richard Bishop looked East for inspiration to last years excellent Polytheistic Fragments, here Rose looks back to the Ragtime era of the 1890s. Joined by assorted friends, including Cul-De-Sac’s Glenn Jones, ex Pelt compatriot Mike Gangloff on banjo, Sean Bowles on occasional washboard and Harmonica Dan (I will leave it to you to guess what he contributes to the mix).
