James Blackshaw
James Blackshaw
Latest Release
- Unraveling In Your Hands
- May 2025
- • 3 Songs
Top Songs
| 1 | Why Keep Still? | ||
| 2 | Dexter | ||
| 3 | The Mirror Speaks | ||
| 4 | Gate of Horn | ||
| 5 | Infinite Cricle |
Albums
Dec 2014 • 7 songs
Aug 2010 • 8 songs
May 2009 • 5 songs
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Biography
A brilliant and innovative 12-string guitar player, James Blackshaw was born in 1981 in London. Another in a long string of amazing British acoustic guitar wizards, Blackshaw has been compared at various times to Bert Jansch, Davy Graham, Robbie Basho, John Fahey, Glenn Jones, Jack Rose, and Leo Kottke, among others, but his sound, often modal and based on improvising across set themes, is entirely his own. Blackshaw released several limited CD-R albums as he began his career, including 2004's Celeste and Lost Prayers and Motionless Dancers, 2005's Sunshrine, and the live Waki...