Name: Jack Rose
Brand: Jack Rose

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LP-TLR-118

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2016-09-16

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Supplier US

Redeye

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Sales:8.875

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711574797912

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Jack Rose

Genre US

Folk

Label US

Three Lobed Recordings

Jack Rose (February 16, 1971 - December 5, 2009) was an American guitarist originally from Virginia and later based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a founding member of the drone/noise band Pelt, but is best known for his *solo acoustic guitar work*. With a distinctive style that blended elements of folk, blues, and world music, Rose captivated audiences with his virtuosic fingerpicking and emotive compositions.

Inspired by artists such as *Robbie Basho*, *John Fahey*, and *Sandy Bull*, Rose's music explored the depths of the acoustic guitar. His intricate melodies and hypnotic rhythms created a mesmerizing experience for listeners. Through his albums like "Red Horse, White Mule" and "Kensington Blues," Rose showcased his mastery of the instrument and cemented his place as one of the most influential figures in contemporary acoustic guitar music.

While he tragically passed away at a young age, Jack Rose's legacy lives on through his timeless recordings. His influence can be heard in the works of artists like *James Blackshaw*, *Glenn Jones*, and *Steve Gunn*. Whether you are a fan of folk or experimental music, exploring Jack Rose's discography is sure to be a captivating journey into the world of solo acoustic guitar.

John Coltrane died at age 40, and in retrospect it seems as if the intensity of activity in his last years, the sheer torrent of notes, was an attempt at purging the music from his soul before it was too late. The guitarist Jack Rose died at 38, in 2009, and listening back to his catalog one has a similar notion. Like Coltrane, Jack Rose's last years were marked by a shimmering intensity, an outpouring of his spirit, onto audiences and records. I believe Jack Rose felt the duty of preservation but was by no means bound by it. With his virtuoso fingerstyle technique and restless guitar explorations—modal epics, bottleneck laments, uptempo rags—it's easy to hear a connection to tradition and at the same time a pulsing modernism: "Ancient to the Future" in the words of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Ultimately, it's no use attempting to explain the unexplainable (natural disasters, God, art, death). As the air gets heavy before a thunderstorm, Jack Rose's vivid guitar picking awakes in us a peculiar awareness, something ancient and American. Jack Rose's work exists along the established continuum of American vernacular music: gospel, early jazz, folk, country blues and up through the post-1960s "American primitive" family tree from John Fahey and Robbie Basho and outward to other idiosyncratic American musicians like Albert Ayler, the NoNeck Blues Band, Captain Beefheart and Cecil Taylor. His process can best be heard as an evolution; renditions of songs would transform over time, worked out live, with changes in duration, tempo or attack, in the search for a song's essence. The album known as Self-Titled was originally released in 2006 on the arCHIVE label, and later reissued as a CD two-fer with Dr. Ragtime and His Pals. It contains a combination of studio and live recordings. Self-Titled is marked by a sense of forward momentum, the result of several years of constant playing, with fresh versions of a number of previously attempted songs. Blind Willie Johnson's spiritual "Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground" is manipulated into a wailing slideguitar lament. "Levee" pops like a warning. "St. Louis Blues" (in this and its several other incarnations across his entire catalog) is a good example of Jack's innate sense of swing, a crucial characteristic of his playing perhaps lost on some of his fingerpicking followers. The centerpiece of the album, however, is the nearly sidelong "Spirits in the House," which begins with tentative weeping glissandos, and slowly reveals itself as a stately fingerpicked blues meditation. Jack Rose was a larger than life man with a hearty spirit—a no-bullshit gentleman—and his death continues to reverberate among the community of musicians and music people he called friends. This spirit, as evidenced within his recorded output, has proven to be indomitable and continually vital.

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