Even amongst cult performers, Robbie Basho stands out as an artist whose influence far outstripped his modest output. Based in Berkeley for much of his career, the self-taught guitarist, composer a…
A new boxed set, “Snow Beneath the Belly of a White Swan: The Lost Live Recordings,” offers rare recordings of Berkeley guitarist and singer Robbie Basho in concert.Even amongst cult performers, Robbie Basho stands out as an artist whose influence far outstripped his modest output.
Rediscovered by a wave of new fans in recent years, Basho gained a burst of attention when San Francisco-based Tompkins Square records released the 2020 box set “Song of the Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes,” a compendium of previously unheard studio recordings discovered by British filmmaker Liam Barker while he was researching his 2015 documentary “Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho.”
Released on Dec. 6, the live recordings also significantly expand Basho’s repertoire, with half a dozen previously unknown tunes. He even interprets two pieces by John Fahey, a fellow American primitive steel-string explorer who launched the movement with the 1966 album “Contemporary Guitar.” The compilation introduced Fahey’s influential Berkeley-based Takoma Records with tracks by himself, Basho, rediscovered Delta bluesman Bukka White, Max Ochs, and Harry Taussig.
“It was a complicated process,” Barker said on a recent video call from the U.K. “I went to this individual’s house, a chaotic place with filth everywhere and thought there was no chance these tapes will survive. Most of the tapes weren’t labeled. We included all the information we had about where the music was recorded.”
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