These songs sprang from the words of Ikkyu,
a.k.a. Crazy Cloud,
mad Japanese poet-monk of the fifteenth century,
and the drawings of Jon Appel,
a.k.a. Leafguy,
mad American artist-wanderer of the present one.
I found them in the hills near Saratoga, Wyoming, in January 2014. Great gratitude to the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts for hosting me. I recorded the songs at home in Santa Fe and Albuquerque in December 2014, January 2015, and August 2015.
Gorgeous fingerstyle guitar playing from this Portland, Oregon musician that captures the spirit of American Primitive in dazzling detail. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 30, 2021