[ATTENDED: June 27, 2019] Sarah Louise
I had heard of Sarah Louise through NPR, although I didn’t know all that much about her.
The NPR page says, “Henson’s career so far has largely hinged on her unmatched prowess as a fingerpicking guitarist. Solo, she’s made a handful of excellent albums of 12-string acoustic guitar music. But on Deeper Woods, she branches out into all kind of different sounds.”
Having read that she was a master of the 12 string, I was genuinely surprised that surprised that so much of the show was on electric guitar. (I assume her 12-string prowess is on the acoustic, but I may be wrong).
It was also strange because she didn’t do a lot on the guitar. The first couple of songs were sparse guitar playing coupled with complex and presumably improvised drumming from Thom Nguyen.
At times she fleshed out her sound with samples, including in this song which was as much about the birds as it was about her guitar playing. (more…)
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