The description of Ryan Francesconi as an American guitarist, for so many reasons, just doesn’t do him justice. Indeed, his voracious musical appetite will have made itself known to many via his arrangement work on Joanna Newsom’s three course blowout Have One On Me, a rich stew of folk, pop, country, rock, gospel, classical and even more exotic ingredients. Even without that level of ornamentation, and reduced just to a six string guitar, he is capable of covering more ground than most. For crucially, Francesconi is a guitarist whose main influences aren’t other guitarists; untangle his strings and you’ll find they are joined to the Bulgarian tambur, the Greek bouzouki, the West African kora or, indeed, the harp. Read the rest of this post over at The Liminal.
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