Showing posts with label Roy Harper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roy Harper. Show all posts

December 4, 2009

Discovering Roy Harper

The motto here is to find great music through friends and strangers alike and pass it on. So here I am. After reading a wonderful interview with Robin Pecknold of the Fleet Foxes conducted by Pitchfork, I looked up a Roy Harper album Pecknold mentions—Stormcock. Says Pecknold: "Jimmy Page plays on some of it... it's mostly the 12-string guitar. Not chords... just beautiful lyrics. It kind of has this acoustic heavy metal vibe... where he's just playing these intense parts but it's on acoustic guitar." Forty-one minutes (just four songs) and two pots of coffee later, I'm now completely entranced by this "acoustic heavy metal" masterpiece. I hope you will be too.

Roy Harper - "Hors d'Oeuvres" (from Stormcock)