His Year of Playing Dangerously
THE NEXT TIME someone tells you the age of the guitar hero is over, just point them toward Anthony Pirog. Although he has chops to spare, he isn’t your prototypical blues-rock virtuoso or metal shredder. Like many modern guitar heroes, Pirog is musically multilingual. In his case, this means that he’s equally conversant with Danny Gatton–esque country picking, jazz, free improvisation and post-rock experimentalism.
Over the past year, he’s provided plenty of places to point, beginning with three albums released within months of each other. (Cuneiform) features the Spellcasters — Pirog and fellow Telecaster-wielders Joel Harrison and Dave Chappell — whose music demonstrates the wide range of tones
