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Peter Lang

Peter Lang

Peter Lang has been played on NTS in shows including Bullion, featured first on 1 May 2017. Songs played include When Kings Come Home, John Hurt In The 21st Century and Living In The Weeds.

A legendary pioneer of fingerstyle guitar music, Peter Lang followed John Fahey in laying the foundations for a new genre of solo instrumental music, sometimes called American Primitive guitar, a genre inspired by blues guitar music from the 1920s and 1930s.

His first album, The Thing At the Nursery Room Window, was released on Fahey's Takoma label in 1972. In 1974, his compilation album with John Fahey and Leo Kottke topped the Billboard charts, and became the label's best selling album and a cult classic.

Together with label mates Fahey, Kottke, Robbie Basho, and Bola Sete, Lang helped to define acoustic music's new place on the concert stage in the seventies.

His reputation as a composer of exceptional ability and originality was already established with the release of the 1972 and 1974 recordings, and four more albums followed in the 1970s and 1980s.

Lang disappeared from the studio and the stage in the early 1980s, to pursue a career in film and animation.

In 1999 he left his job as an animation and special effects producer to take a two-year sabbatical to pick up where he had left off, to write and record fingerstyle guitar music once again.

Dharma Blues, a collection of eleven new compositions for six and twelve string guitar, was released in June 2001.

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Peter Lang

Peter Lang has been played on NTS in shows including Bullion, featured first on 1 May 2017. Songs played include When Kings Come Home, John Hurt In The 21st Century and Living In The Weeds.

A legendary pioneer of fingerstyle guitar music, Peter Lang followed John Fahey in laying the foundations for a new genre of solo instrumental music, sometimes called American Primitive guitar, a genre inspired by blues guitar music from the 1920s and 1930s.

His first album, The Thing At the Nursery Room Window, was released on Fahey's Takoma label in 1972. In 1974, his compilation album with John Fahey and Leo Kottke topped the Billboard charts, and became the label's best selling album and a cult classic.

Together with label mates Fahey, Kottke, Robbie Basho, and Bola Sete, Lang helped to define acoustic music's new place on the concert stage in the seventies.

His reputation as a composer of exceptional ability and originality was already established with the release of the 1972 and 1974 recordings, and four more albums followed in the 1970s and 1980s.

Lang disappeared from the studio and the stage in the early 1980s, to pursue a career in film and animation.

In 1999 he left his job as an animation and special effects producer to take a two-year sabbatical to pick up where he had left off, to write and record fingerstyle guitar music once again.

Dharma Blues, a collection of eleven new compositions for six and twelve string guitar, was released in June 2001.

Original source: Last.fm

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When Kings Come Home
Peter Lang
Takoma1974
John Hurt In The 21st Century
Peter Lang
Horus Records2003
Living In The Weeds
Peter Lang
Waterhouse Records1978
Red Meat On The Road
Peter Lang
Takoma0