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I first heard Gordon Giltrap in the Seventies, and I will be the first to admit that in a era of fabulously good guitarists, Kotke, Renbourn, Jansch; this guy stood out. Huge dynamic range, incredibly clever melody lines and an amazing sense of rhythm. The chords and the notes just flowed like magic. The arrangements had orchestral backings on some of the tracks but the best stuff is always just the solo guitar pieces.

Here is a bit of bio…

Gordon Giltrap (born 6 April, 1948) is a British virtuoso acoustic and electric guitarist and composer, whose music can be categorised into folk, blues, folk rock, and classical, amongst others.
Giltrap learned guitar at the age of twelve, having received no other training, and hence developed his own style and technique. He has played alongside such other artists as Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and Mike Oldfield. Gordon’s music is largely instrumental, particularly that written as part of the Gordon Giltrap Band.

Giltrap has released an impressive 27 albums since the first, self-titled, album in 1968.
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You can find a bunch of great videos over at YouTube. Here is “Heartsong”…

If you like guitars and impressively good guitarists, you could do way worse than have a listen to Gordon Giltrap. To get you started, here is a live performance of “Heartsong”

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Highly Recommended.

Websites at www.myspace.com/gordongiltrap and www.giltrap.co.uk/

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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