| Steve Guimond - 16/Dec/2010 Tracing the career of young buck James Blackshaw has been an ear-opening affair, a journey into the musical mind of a supernaturally gifted composer a...
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| Jackie Im - 15/Oct/2010 Categorizing artists by genre can sometimes be a dubious project. Much in the way that visual arts can bleed from sculpture to photography to video to...
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Art Levy - 29/Sep/2010  For James Blackshaw, guitar virtuosity is less a display of fretboard fireworks than a means to an end. The British twentysomething has a lengthy disc...
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Brent Andrew Dare - 13/Sep/2010  For James Blackshaw, an artist frequently equated with the likes of Jack Rose and John Fahey, the pressure must surely be overwhelming. It’s not his y...
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Jennifer Kelly - 09/Sep/2010  Anextraordinarily beautiful eight-song cycle, All Is Falling continuesJames Blackshaw's development as a composer and arranger, as well as guitarist.L...
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| Greg Barbrick - 01/Sep/2010 The young 12-string guitar master James Blackshaw is back, and his latest album, All Is Falling, exhibits another tremendous leap forward for him. For...
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Embling - 27/Aug/2010  James Blackshaw, despite recording with an electric guitar for the first time, seems to be in a mood more of defeat or retreat than of newfound inspir...
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Bowlegs - 26/Aug/2010  When all you need is a 12 string guitar to induce the listener into a heady trance it is pretty obvious you have a certain talent. 2007’s ‘The Cloud o...
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Matthew Fiander - 24/Aug/2010  A hypnic jerk is that feeling you get when you’re sleeping—when, just as you’re drifting off to sleep, you suddenly feel like you’re falling, and your...
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NEIL LEVENS - 23/Aug/2010  There may be no greater reward for the music listener, or tricker ground for a musician, than to be floating wildly outside every sphere of defined mu...
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