ACOUSTIC ENIGMA

“I’M ALWAYS LOOKING for an element of the uncommon,” Eric McFadden says. Perhaps that’s why he’s still something of a mystery to the mainstream after a quarter century of virtuosic playing with George Clinton, Eric Burdon, Stockholm Syndrome, Anders Osborne and countless others. McFadden’s fantastically broad range makes him difficult to pigeonhole, and he’s equally interesting on either side of the acoustic/electric guitar equation. It takes a truly unique cat to blaze a career path from playing gypsy mandolin with P-Funk to strumming flamenco-inspired nylon-string with the Animals, right up to his largely electric blues affair Pain by Numbers, released last summer on Tab Benoit’s Whiskey Bayou Records. Last fall, McFadden released an acoustic duo album with Omar Torrez (check out the video for the furious “Mosquito Song”), and at the close of 2018 he dropped Eric McFadden Does AC/DC, a dazzling all-acoustic tribute to the least acoustic rock act of all time, AC/DC.

McFadden already has another acoustic release up his sleeve, and an exclusive sneak peak for Frets reveals that it’s stocked with Latin-flavored nylon-string nuggets such