American Primitivism

American Primitivism, also known as American Primitive Guitar, is a genre of guitar music, initiated by John Fahey in the late 1950s. Fahey's trademarks were his Avantgarde-/Neoklassik-Kompositionen played traditional bluegrass finger picking style. Other famous musicians of this direction were Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho and Peter Lang; all published at some point during their careers on Fahey's Takoma Records label.

From American Primitivism influenced contemporary guitarists including Sir Richard Bishop, Steffen Basho- Junghans, Jack Rose and Daniel Bachman.

Quotes

" The New Age people call it folk, the folk people call it New Age, in reality it is neither, it is border The style derives from the Country Blues and String Band Music of the 20s and 30s from. . nonetheless much is contemporary in music. Fahey described it as ' American Primitive ' after the ' French Primitive' - painters, which means as unskilled. "