History of Sound

American primitive guitar

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American primitive guitar is a fingerstyle guitar music genre, developed by the American guitarist John Fahey in the late 1950s. While the term “American primitivism” has been used as a name for the genre, American primitive guitar is distinct from the primitivism art movement.

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