Tear It Up

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Product Description

Tear It Up is the latest CD from fingerstyle guitar wizard Keith Knight. This new CD features ac oustic 12 & 6 string guitar, upright bass, fiddle, vocals, and spans a wide array of musical styles227from Celtic to ragtime blues to Appalachian mountain music. Tear It Up demonstrates Knight’s incredible versa tility as a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, and his guitar picking has been best described as a rapid -fire and hell-bent Appalachian frenzy. Songs like The Dublin Dudes, Cat Fight, Trotsky’s Revenge and Te xas Tombstone are powerhouse fingerstyle guitar pieces combining artistry and aggression. Calimaica dive rsifies this CD even more with its calypso rhythms and world beats. Dag Nab It! tributes Django Reinhard t with its gypsy jazz flavor. Knight’s immense respect and understanding of ragtime guitarist Blind Blake culminate in Chomp Man Blues and That’ll Never Happen No More which both resemble the original recorded versions of those classic ragtime blues tunes. Tear It Up demonstrates that Keith Knight is one of the most astute and diverse modern folk music ians out there today.

About the Artist

Keith Knight is a solo 12 & 6 string fingerstyle guitarist and vocalist specializing in traditional and modern folk as well as ragtime and country blues. A nationally touring artist from South Carolina, Keith Knight is considered by many to be one of the finest fingerstyle guitarists in America. He has gained notable recognition for his guitar wizardry including a fellowship for music performance from the South Carolina Arts Commission (2000) as well as placing in the “Top 10 Best Musician” category in the Austin Music Awards (1993). He is currently on the SCAC’s roster for the state’s Arts in Education program. Keith Knight’s high-energy finger picking and sophisticated melodic compositions and arrangements are bridging the gap of music listeners. One reporter has called Keith “the illegitimate son of Bill Monroe and Eddie Van Halen.” His shows deliver a potent dose of guitar playing that leaves even the most advanced listeners and players winded. Originally a solo acoustic guitar performer in Los Angeles, he also co-founded the electric pop band The Panic Choir, where he utilized his electric/acoustic guitar, mandolin, and dobro playing. Keith and The Panic Choir released a CD entitled Soul and Luna on the Crystal Clear label in late 1993. Critics called Keith’s guitar playing “amazing”, “distinctive”, and “impressive”. In 1997, Keith relocated to Charleston, South Carolina where he created his own record label, Bear Claw Music, and was soon thereafter included in the South Carolina Arts Commission’s roster of touring artists. In 1998, Bear Claw Music released Hammer Thru the Silence, Keith’s debut solo CD which has been featured on over 75 folk music radio shows around the world. While being classified as traditional American folk music, Hammer Thru the Silence abounds in deep blues (ragtime/delta), monstrously heavy slide guitar and tenor vocals. In 2002, Bear Claw Music released Keith’s second solo CD, Tear It Up. Tear It Up features acoustic 12 & 6 string guitar, upright bass, fiddle, vocals, and spans a wide array of musical styles—from Celtic to ragtime blues to Appalachian mountain music, and demonstrates Knight’s incredible versatility as a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, and his guitar picking has been best described as a rapid-fire and hell-bent Appalachian frenzy.