Ernest Hood

Ernest Hood was a guitarist, zither player, and field recorder based in Portland, Oregon. While he came from a jazz background and had played with big bands in the 1940s, he is best known for his lone solo album, 1975's Neighborhoods, a poignant, nostalgic collage of ebullient synthesizer-based pieces interspersed with field recordings of everyday small-town scenes. Virtually unheard during Hood's lifetime, the album gained a cult following nearly half a century later, and was reissued in 2019. Hood was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1923. Usually credited as Ernie, he...