Taken from his beautiful debut album Dusk, released through Shahzad Ismaily’s Figureight records in November 2019, our Tune of the Day is ‘Paradise, Kentucky’ by Brooklyn-based fingerstyle guitarist J.R. Bohannon. This is music to lose yourself in…
Self-produced by Bohannon and engineered by Jeff Zeigler (Mary Lattimore, War on Drugs, Kurt Vile), Dusk will be released through Shahzad Ismaily’s figureight records on 1st November, 2019. The record represents a deep, intuitive study of the guitar in the American folk tradition imbued with influences from minimalism, Latin, & Greek music.
Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Bohannon is a student in American styles and his compositions for 6 and 12-string guitar sit somewhere between the dulcet, pastoral bliss of pioneers such as Leo Kottke or Robbie Basho, the passionate fluidity of Gabor Szabo, and the Southern charm of Ry Cooder. He marries this with a love of American minimalism – greats like Philip Glass and Terry Riley as well as modern acts Tortoise and Gastr Del Sol – and with this multitude of inspirations, his own compositions take a form carefully nuanced, both spacious and fluid.
Dusk will be available digitally and on limited vinyl. Pre-order from Bandcamp
Photo Credit: Tariq Kidwai