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    New Shades of Blues

    Jun 30, 2020 4 minutes
    BY VINNIE DEMASI
    PHOTOGRAPH BY LUCAS PACKETT

    EVEN BEFORE RELEASING Trouble, his 2016 debut album, Hamish Anderson had toured the globe, making buzz-generating appearances at major festivals and opening for B.B. King at the legend’s last performance. Around the time of Trouble’s release, Gary Clark Jr. was impressed enough to cite the then 25-year-old native of Melbourne, Australia, as a guitarist to watch.

    Read about Anderson and you’re likely to see him described as a blues guitarist. Listen to him, however, and you’ll discover that his blues is less concerned with 12-bar forms and pentatonic improvisation and much more in tune with the genre’s original form: a spiritual melding of artist and instrument,

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