Biography

INDIE Award-winning guitarist Robin Bullock has been hailed as “one of the best folk instrumentalists in the business” by Sing Out! Magazine, ranked by DigitalDreamDoor.com as one of the "100 Greatest Acoustic Guitarists,” and honored with both Editor's Pick and Player’s Choice Awards from Acoustic Guitar Magazine. His twelfth solo CD (or seventeenth, counting collaborations) is both a departure and a homecoming: after many years of exploring Celtic musical traditions - earning him the sobriquet "Celtic guitar god" from Baltimore City Paper - and adapting Bach Cello Suites for mandolin along the way, Robin returns to his roots now for a CD of classic American folk songs interpreted on (mostly) solo guitar.

Inspired by a suggestion from folk legend Tom Paxton while Robin was touring as his sideman, the straightforwardly-titled "An American Guitar Album" includes Robin's deeply personal take on such evergreens as "The Streets of Laredo," "Oh Susanna," "My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains," "Fox Went a-Hunting on a Chilly Night," "Beautiful Dreamer," and many other beloved American songs, as well as new re-recordings of Robin's original "Lost Hollow Lament" and his much-requested solo guitar version of "Shenandoah."

In a time of change and uncertainty in America, "An American Guitar Album" reminds us of our higher spirit and challenges us to remember what we could be.

FOR AIRPLAY:

Up-tempo & driving:
Track 4, Fox Went a-Hunting on a Chilly Night (1:58)
Track 6, Long Way from Home Medley (4:56)

Upbeat & bouncy:
Track 3, Corrina Corrina (3:51)
Track 8, Cannonball Blues/Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie (3:06)

American favorites, in familiar and relaxing settings:
Track 9, Shenandoah (5:14)
Track 10, The Streets of Laredo (3:12)
Track 11, Hard Times Come Again No More (3:58)
Track 12, Beautiful Dreamer (3:18)

An American favorite in a reworked, more impressionistic form:
Track 2, Oh Susanna (4:39)