Mike Auldridge - Lap Slide Virtuoso

http://www.mikeauldridge.com/

Former American Primitivism follower Mike Auldridge is a modern dobro and lap steel player who originally recorded on the legendary Takoma record label. Mike's resophonic style draws from the classic American technique of the Open G guitar tuning. His skills are demonstrated in all of his albums available here as well as in his dobro instructional DVD. This page also gives the reader another idea of the American Primitive Style while still allowing them to connect with the common, solo instrument sound that makes up this technically impressive style of music.

Robbie Basho - Takoma Records Renegade

http://www.bluemomentarts.de/bma/rbasho/en/

Robbie Basho loved classical Indian music. Robbie Basho also loved the American southern guitar styles he had heard on the radio as a kid. Consequently, Robbie Basho created an imaginative fusion of the two with the use of a twelve string guitar. Inspired by Ravi Shankar, Basho tuned his guitars to a variation of the Open C Tuning (the same tuning favored by Charley Patton and John Fahey) in order to achieve the droning sounds of the Indian Sitar.

This site provides the important variations of American Primitive Guitar and gives an in depth portrait into the life and guitar style of Robbie Basho. This is a key componant in understanding American Primitive Guitar because this is just another piece of the John Fahey legacy.

Leo Kottke - The elaborator of American Primitive

http://www.leokottke.com/

Leo Kottke's first album "Six and Twelve String Guitar" was the first product of the almost sixty year legacy of American Primitive Guitar. Discovered by John Fahey at a young age, Kottke was playing intricate guitar songs with an intense use of harmonics and precise fingerstyle technique. Fahey immeadiately signed Leo to Takoma records where he produced many of his best albums. This site provides Kottke's entire discography, tour dates, photos and contact information for the American Primitive prodigy.

The Roots of John Fahey

http://grapewrath.blogspot.com/2008/04/roots-of-john-fahey.html

This page give a complete explanation of the influences that created American Primitive guitar. It showcases the obvious blues influences as well as the Indian Ragas, experimental songs, mountain ballads and bluegrass runs which made Fahey and his prodigies so tuneful and brilliant. All three discs of the compilation are available for legal download (as they are for educational purposes and not for monetary benefit). This also includes a really neat picture of Fahey with Delta blues demigod Son House (the man who allegedly taught Robert Johnson to play the slide). If anyone wants to look deeper into American Primitive Guitar, this is the site to research.

The Delta Slider - American Primitive Guitar Blog

http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/search/label/American%20Primitive

This particular gentleman is a guitarist and blogger himself who doesn't just focus on the purities of John Fahey. He has a ton of legally produced recordings of more contemporary American Primitive guitarists like Jack Rose. This is key in understanding how American Primitive has shifted in the past decade after John Fahey's death. In his later years, as well in Leo Kottke's, Fahey began experimenting with electric guitar techniques and effects. This page elaborates on these years and shows a variety of new guitar players with similar visions. This page also shows several Fahey obituaries and stories immortalizing the man's legacy.

American Primitive Guitar - Master Thesis by Nick Schillace

http://www.nickschillace.com/thesis/index.htm

This source takes an in depth look into the cultural importance of American Primitive Guitar and elaborates on its role in American music. Schillace focuses on Fahey's role in the creation of this brand of music while also touching on its more contemporary contributors such as Peter Lang and Leo Kottke.

Revenent Records

http://www.revenantrecords.com/

During his lifetime, Fahey acted as one of the first performers to create his own record label by which he could record and release anything he wished. Takoma Records, named after Fahey's Maryland childhood home, was originally established during the late sixties and published numerous Fahey recordings as well as several Blues and American Primitive artists such as Bukka White, Robbie Basho, Leo Kottke and The Possum Hunters. Unfortunately, Takoma records was purchased in the late seventies by Chrysalis Music and shied away from the American Primitive Style.

Revenent Records was later created in Fahey's last years of life in order to support public interest in guitar music during the 1990's. This site not only provides biographies on Fahey, it offers two American Primitive sampler albums and several re-releases of Fahey's influences (such as Charlie Patton and Jenks Carman). This site is the best place to gain access to American Primitive Guitar Music.

www.johnfahey.com

http://www.johnfahey.com/

This site profiles the work of American Primitive Guitar founder, John Fahey. Originally working under the pseudonym, Blind Joe Death, Fahey created numerous experimental albums throughout the 1960's. Very much a recluse from the 60's folk revival and the free love movement, Fahey spent much of his time canvassing for 78 rpm recordings and rediscovering and recording originally southern blues singers such as Bukka White and Skip James. This site provides numerous interviews with Fahey, an archive of written guitar music and a dense explanation of Fahey's massive discography.