Edward Gerhard

Acoustic/fingerstyle guitarist Edward Gerhard is one of the genre's most gifted and highly regarded players. Although he currently resides in New England, Gerhard is originally from Philadelphia, where at the age of 14 he began playing guitar after being awestruck by the legendary Andrés Segovia. But it was another renowned guitarist, John Fahey, that inspired Gerhard to begin experimenting with open tunings, which would eventually become one of his trademarks. Gerhard issued his solo debut in 1987, Night Birds, which was chosen at the time as one of the Top Ten Albums of the ...