PERRY, JORDAN - S/T

Much needed reissue of the extremely limited 2017 debut LP by Virginia guitarist, Jordan Perry. We were turned on to it when Chris Guttmacher at Blue Bag Records in Cambridge told Kassie Richardson of Good Cry (who did the initial 100 pressing) to send us a copy. He thought we might be into it, and halfway into one spin we knew he was right. There have been several fat boatloads of acoustic guitar players floating across our turntable the past few years. And to be honest, weve dug the majority of them. Seems like there must be a lot of good stuff in the water, or something. Despite this, a preponderance of the players weve enjoyed have definitely been in the American Primitive mode. Lots of swift modal aktion with a folk/blues base, invaded by various foreign agents. Jordan Perrys approach to his guitar is quite different. Although there are some basic völk sonorities in his playing, Mr. Perrys brunt combines these with more avant garde note selections and compositional gambits, as wel