Gordon Giltrap

I was privileged to see Gordon Giltrap do a private gig last night here at Loughborough University, to promo a professional quality plastic guitar and a limited issued CD* Cool Acoustics (check:http://www.coolacoustics.com/), of music played on Rob Armstrong traditional guitars and plastic guitars.

One thing that struck me, especially when I've read here that Giltrap might be included in the Archives, is that, while his music is virtuosic it is definitiely not prog. Rather continuing in the solo guitar performance traditions of Davey Graham, Bert Jansch etc.

DallasBryan wrote: Perilous Journey and a few others during the 70's could be considered instrumental progressive rock.

Another artist who used the medium briefly and moved on (besides after the concert, talking with Giltrap, it was really inappropriate to ask him if he was a prog musician!!!\) The brand new GG album Cool Acoustics is free of anything that could be called prog - new and traditional (Anglo-Celtic) folk, folk blues, semi-serious/classical for certain but not in the same tune. Buy it!!