Acoustic guitar driven, edgy roots, blues, and rock. Thoughtful and poignant songwriting, recorded live and real!!
Singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Andy plays a kind of music he calls 'Roots and Blues.' He uses this term, really, for lack of any better term to characterize his music.
As Andy explains: "Roots and Blues for me means basically a bunch of acoustic blues songs and whatever else I want to play." The 'whatever else' includes folk, classic-rock, and even touches of jazz, ragtime, and bluegrass music.
"Right or wrong, I've never really settled into a hard and fast style of music or songwriting. (See the Bio Page for more details.) My first experiences were in more of a rock and roll setting, and that's how I learned how to sing and play guitar with a pick. But for the last 8 or 9 years I've tried to immerse myself more in the acoustic blues tradition, where you use your fingers and often a slide. Masters of this style were people like Robert Johnson and Son House, for example."
"One reason for playing different styles is that, if you're performing solo like me, you've got to mix things up a bit to keep people's attention. And the way I try to do this is by varying genres, techniques, guitars, tunings--whatever I can do to keep things interesting."
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