The Attic Tapes Renbourn

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The attic tapes renbourn.

View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 2016 cd release of the attic tapes on discogs. The riverboat label s new collection of previously unreleased home recorded tracks the attic tapes catches him just before he made his name in the early 1960s a formative period when he hashed out his mix of folk blues and baroque classical and toured the south of england with cultish innovator mac macleod. It raises more questions about archival. Certainly others will hear this set and rate it lower to each his own on that.

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Tunes like anji are nice but not definitive showing renbourn s early style. T he attic tapes is a 20 song archival hodgepodge cobbled together from early recordings of the late british guitarist john renbourn who died in march. For anyone with even a passing interest in the music of john renbourn the attic tapes is an essential and absorbing collection thanks in no small part to colin hood s editing and tape transfers and to mike walker s mastering which offers a remarkable insight into the roots of one of britain s greatest guitarists and songwriters. The four stars is for the release of these tapes themselves and hearing renbourn so early without him having any thoughts to these tunes being issued.

Certainly others will hear this set and rate it lower to each his own on that. John renbourn the attic tapes an album of early 1960s recordings by the fingerstyle pioneer offers a glimpse at his developing style. Riverboat records tugcd1089 format. 4 7 out of 5 stars 27 ratings.

This is nothing less then a looking glass into the nascent brit folk scene and it s easy to see that renbourn s style that eventually led to the term folk baroque was almost fully formed if sporadic at times. Made in the eu. The four stars is for the release of these tapes themselves and hearing renbourn so early without him having any thoughts to these tunes being issued. Lovingly mastered from old tapes found in a friend s attic this is a vintage collection of previously unreleased rarities and early works by one of the guitar s truly great innovators.