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    ROBBIE BASHO

    Apr 16, 2020 3 minutes
    By John Robinson

    Great Songs Of Mystery: The Lost Vanguard Session REAL GONE MUSIC

    9/10

    ROBBIE BASHO was an American guitarist taking his instrument on an extraordinary journey. A bit like his colleague John Fahey, who attended the same Maryland college, and for whose Takoma label he recorded, Basho’s music has the feeling of a quest undertaken in a wild landscape. But while Fahey, channelling blues and ragtime, seems to travel by road and rail across America, close to the dust and dirt, Basho travels

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