[FM] Eminent Fingerstyle Guitarist Peter Lang Returns After 22 years

[Peter Lang]

NEWS  RELEASE 7/12/01



". . .  a first wave kAmerican Primitivem who was a pal and peer of John Fahey
and Leo Kottke, he gave up playing professionally in 1991 and hadnmt recorded a
new album since 1978.  So it stands to reason that Lang should sound a bit
rusty on his new CD Dharma Blues,  but nothing could be further from the
truth.  It is a dazzling display of his polyglot blues/folk/improv pickinm
style . . ."  Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 16 2001

This Grammy nominated guitarist recorded and performed in the seventies
releasing six albums and developing a reputation as a leading composer for the
genre and one of its premier players.  Lang disappeared from the studio and
stage in the early eighties to pursue other interests.

Discovered and recorded by legendary guitarist and innovator, John Fahey, Lang
joined Faheyms Takoma label and released his first album The Thing at The
Nursery Room Window in 1972.  In 1974, his compilation album with John Fahey
and Leo Kottke reached number four on the Billboard FM chart, and became the
labelms best selling album and a cult classic.   Together with label mates John
Fahey, Leo Kottke, George Winston, Robbie Basho, and Bola Sete, Lang helped to
define acoustic musicms new place on the concert stage in the seventies.  The
label would become the model for what is now called "New Age" music.

In 1999, Lang left his job as an animation and special effects producer to take
a two year sabbatical to pick up where he left off, writing and recording
music.  Dharma Blues marks his first album of new material since 1978 .

More information is available about Lang at:


Stropes Editions LTD.





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