This page is place to come to find out about new releases of fingerstyle guitar music.  When this site is notified of a new CDs being released, this page will announce it here with links to the artist web page where you can get more information, listen to samples, and/or links to where they can be purchased. 

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Last update: Mar 3, 2010
 

Kerry Kean
 New River Guitarism

“New River Guitarism” is Kerry Kean’s second cd of fingerstyle guitar solos. With 11 original and two traditional tunes, it covers a wide range of styles and moods ranging from soft and pretty ("Drifting", "After the Harvest") to rapid-fire cascades of notes ("White Water", "Grandma's Typewriter"). Much of the music on this cd was inspired by the New River in West Virginia, and Kerry’s love of the outdoors and beautiful places shines through.

“With each listen it becomes clear that Kean possesses the ability to find the heart and soul of each of the varied styles presented on this collection…”
– James Filkin, www.minor7th.com/shorttakes12_09.html  

Reviews, clips, videos and more at
www.kerrykean.com
www.myspace.com/kerrykean

Nov. 29, 2009

Vin Downes
 Skies and Openings

"Skies and Openings" is the first recording by fingerstyle guitarist Vin Downes.  It is comprised of eleven original songs (sample) with influences of Americana, Blues, Classical, Folk and Jazz. It includes seven solo performances and four pieces with guest musicians Lois Carpenter on bass, Mike Fumento on drums, and Jeffrey Young on violin.  "Skies and Openings" is the culmination of years spent exploring fingerstyle guitar.  It is a mix of styles and moods in a pure acoustic setting.

Downes began studying guitar at the age of eleven. His early interests were in electric guitar, but this changed when he heard the music of Michael Hedges and Leo Kottke. He was immediately intrigued with the art of fingerstyle acoustic guitar.  Downes went on to earn a degree in classical guitar performance and music education from William Paterson University. Along the way, he has studied classical composition, Indian tabla, and American roots music, while developing a love for jazz and all improvised music.

http://www.vindownes.com
Vin Downes MySpace
YouTubeVideos
Vin Downes at CDBaby

David Barrett
 The Dead Arm

This is David Barrett's fourth acoustic CD featuring new compositions on six and twelve string acoustic guitars, classical, resophonic, mandolin, and laud. All of the tracks are performed solo, except track 8, which is a multi-tracked mandolin tune. Album produced, written and arranged by David Barrett. Photography and design by Paul Reid.

http://www.noisytrade.com 
 http://www.myspace.com/noisytrade

Aug, 2009

Adam O'Connor
 2 Head City

2 Head City is Contemporary Solo Guitar, un-fenced. It is unique, risky, unorthodox and beautiful.  This music is a fusion of styles which are seldom found together on one album, in one tune or on one guitar. Adam O'Connor weaves musical ideas in a way that makes it difficult to categorize. The 12 original tunes make this album as much about the writing as it is about the playing. The cover shot of an oil refinery reflects the music within; fiery, shadowy, ugly and beautiful, intricate, precarious and brilliant.

People can listen to most of the tunes in full at http://www.myspace.com/adamoconnor1
Hear 3 others at www.adamoconnor.net
Buy a hard copy from:
http://www.acmemusic.com.au/ and soon on CD baby
Or download from iTunes by searching adam oconnor or 2 Head City

Adam Palma
Good Morning

Adam has worked as a session guitarist since 1998 having played with several of the best Polish jazz and pop musicians, singers, arrangers and composers, not to mention international artists such as Chris de Burgh and Hamish Stuart (Average White Band). His influences cover a wide variety of musical styles from rock to country, from acoustic fingerstyle guitar to jazz and from AC/DC to Frank Sinatra.

Although Adam claims he is a rock guitarist his skills are varied and diverse and in recent years has branched out into fingerstyle acoustic guitar. He has played acoustic at the Wirral International Guitar Festival and other guitar festivals in Europe. Recently his hard work was acknowledged by no less than the world famous acoustic guitar wizard Tommy Emmanuel, who has invited Adam to take part in the most prestigious guitar event in the world: The Chet Atkins Appreciation Society (CAAS) in Nashville in July 2009. This is a fantastic accolade for Adam and is indeed high praise and recognition from one of the true acoustic guitar masters.

Please visit Adam's website www.adampalma.net to find out more about his first solo album "Good Morning" and to listen to the samples.

Mary Flower
Bridges

Mary Flower, a 2008 Blues Music Award Nominee for “Acoustic Artist of the Year,” brings her uniquely personal vision of roots music to the most fully realized album of her career. On Bridges , the guitarist’s sound is technically dazzling yet grounded in the down-to-earth simplicity of early 20th century American music.

In unearthing obscure gems from the songbooks of 1920s and ’30s America to complement her own rootsy compositions, Flower explores and illuminates the complex relationships between Piedmont blues, ragtime, jazz, and old-time gospel music.  Unconventional instruments such as piano, tuba, accordion, clarinet, mandolin, and saxophone flesh out the arrangements on 14 tracks that, taken together, reveal Flower to be capable of remarkable nuance — as well as more stylistic diversity than just about any other artist currently recording under the “acoustic blues” banner

"A luscious, lusty mix of rootsy styles, anchored by Flower's immense finger-style guitar technique and warm-as-honey-and-whiskey voice.  Her meter-perfect guitar work is inventive, dexterous and rock solid. Her voice is as comforting as a winter quilt and effortless as a breeze."
—The Oregonian