![]() Heavily influenced by legendary country-folk guitarist John Prine, Noe’s intricate fingerstyle provides the perfect bedrock to his wonderful vignettes of smalltown America. It’s often said that the best communicators don’t waste their words, and 29-year-old Kentuckian Ian Noe isn’t one to overshare – he lets his spellbinding songs do the talking for him. Listen to: Harrison Whitford – Take A Walk Whitford is best known as the lead guitar foil to Phoebe Bridgers, but his solo work shows off the full palette of his remarkably inventive guitar playing, blending the atmospheric esoteric touches that he uses to such great effect in his day job with restrained country-tinged acoustic work and powerful electrified moments. He’s earned himself some famous fans, too, with Neil Young, Bob Dylan and both Gallagher brothers tagging Boy Azooga for support slots in the last year. And what a compellingly unique place it is, too – mashing up funk, soul, classic rock, pop and world music into a giant psychedelic smoothie, with Newington delivering hook after hummable hook along the way. Well done to the organisers for raising so much money! Sad I didn’t win the massive giant stuffed dog but I still got the M dawgĪ post shared by Boy Azooga on at 12:51pm PDTīoy Azooga’s remarkably refined debut album, 1, 2, Kung Fu!, feels like an 11-track residency inside Davey Newington’s head. Had a blast playing at the Cardiff Dogs Home fundraiser down on Saturday. ![]() Listen to: Daniel Donato – Always Been A Lover Still only 20, Donato has since struck out on his own and established himself as one of the most in-demand players in Nashville. Two years of badgering and woodshedding later, and Donato earned his way in. So when a teenage Daniel Donato saw the Don Kelley Band performing there – the legendary working band that spawned Brent Mason and Johnny Hiland – and declared he’d found the band he wanted to join. If you want to walk onto Nashville’s famous Broadway holding a Telecaster, you better have your chops in order, because otherwise everyone and their grandma (literally) on that street will leave you in the dust. If you were a Grammy-nominated producer who’s worked with everyone from Alabama Shakes to John Legend, you’d probably be happy with that, right? Well, Blake Mills seems determined to make even the most industrious of us feel inadequate, by also demonstrating that he’s a fine songwriter and singer who’s in demand as both a deft acoustic fingerstylist and wonderfully melodic country player. Listen to: Beabadoobee – I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus She was snapped up by hip indie-pop kingmakers Dirty Hit, and in the two years since has honed her sound away from the standard acoustic singer-songwriter fare, pulling in a trove of 90s guitar influences and picking up a Mustang to create languid grunge-pop tunes that sound like they’re beamed straight from 1995. But a closer listen to their varied back catalogue demonstrates the remarkably chameleonic nature of Hann’s guitar playing – from intricate guitar-pop to angular 80s neo-soul to abrasive lo-fi punk, he can inhabit them all, while always sounding uniquely like himself.įilipino-British songwriter Beabadoobee (aka Bea Kristi) first signalled her songwriting talent at the age of 16, when a fan uploaded her song Coffee to YouTube, and it quickly went viral. The 1975’s frontman Matt Healy is one of the most outspoken and charismatic figures in pop, so perhaps it should be no surprise that the band’s prodigiously talented lead guitarist Adam Hann doesn’t seem to get much attention, despite being in one of the biggest bands on the planet. ![]() “I was getting a lot of, ‘Man, you’re good, but you need to slow down.’ Even players who played fast were telling me to slow down! You can never stop learning, so I took their knowledge and applied it to what I do.” “I play more tastefully now,” he told us. Ingram’s talent attracted attention almost immediately and quickly saw him marked out for big things – he played his first gig at 11 and was playing for the Obamas at the White House by the time he was 15 – but unlike so many guitar prodigies, Ingram hasn’t stagnated, instead continuing to develop his tone, technique and feel. Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram (featured above) grew up in the blues heartland of Mississippi and from his earliest days, the 20-year-old has been determined to keep the tradition alive and bring the music to a new generation. In the space of a fortnight last year, this publication asked modern blues titans Gary Clark Jr and Eric Gales the same question – who’s the next big thing? The answer in both cases was one word: ‘Kingfish’.
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