The Hermit

Artist: John Renbourn
Label: Shanachie
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 016351971425
EAN: 0016351971425
ASIN: B000000E99

Release Date: 1991-09-30

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my favorite strings

Tracks:

Medley: A Toye/Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home
Three Pieces By O'Carolan: The Lamentation Of Owen Roe O'Neill/Lord Inchiquin...
The Princess And The Puddings
Faro's Rag
The Hermit
Goat Island
Old Mac Bladgitt
Pavanna (Anna Bannana)
Bicycle Tune
John's Tune
Caroline's Tune

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Customer Reviews:

stellar acoustic folk guitar playing........2007-02-16

to me, john renbourn does for the british isles what john fahey did for american folk music. his solo acoustic guitar work evokes the spirit of his homeland in a uniquely beautiful way. here he draws from Elizabethan age england, 17th and 18th century ireland, on up to 1991, with self-composed pieces. the guitar work itself is jaw-dropping great, not to be missed. lastly, i would like to praise the sound achieved on this recording. no producer is named in the linear notes, but whoever got this "sound" is to be commended. it comes through the speakers like mr renbourn is right there in the room with you. you can feel his fingers on the strings, and here them buzz after plucked with a clarity i've seldom heard on solo guitar recordings. great, great folk music from the british isles.

Masterful.......2002-04-07

Beautiful--masterful guitar playing--it really just doesn't get much better than this. Very soothing--great to listen to at the office. As a bonus--there are a few tab transcriptions in the cover for guitar players!!!Something you don't find very often.

Classic Renbourn.......2000-08-15

I own every recording Renbourn has ever produced with his name on the main by-line, and he's never put out an unsatisfactory work. Even then, this is one of his best from his earlier years. It's an all solo-instrumental set with no vocals (though another truly exceptional guitarist, John James, sits in on several tracks as well), featuring both originally composed material and adapted works by O'Carolan and others. I like this particular album by Renbourn because his treatment of the material does not fall victim to his one occasional weakness as a guitarist: a tendency toward repetition. If you listened much to NPR's program "All Things Considered" in the 1970s and 1980s you will recognize one of the cuts from this album, which was used for many years as a filler sequence on that program.

Excellent.......1998-06-16

excellent renditions of classic Renbourn material. John Renbourn is the master of celtic guitar. Traditional & versions of previous Pentangle material.

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