Name: Third
Brand: Nathan Salsburg

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

NOQ057cd

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-07-20

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Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

843563101056

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Nathan Salsburg

Genre US

Folk

Label US

No Quarter

Nathan Salsburg is a guitarist, composer, archivist and writer living in Kentucky. He collaborates with various artists, including songwriter-singer Joan Shelley and guitar-duo partner James Elkington. Additionally, he has contributed to recordings by Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Jake Xerxes Fussell, and Nathan Bowles, among others. Salsburg also serves as the curator of the digital Alan Lomax Archive.
With his exceptional skills on the guitar and talent for composition, Nathan Salsburg has established himself as a prominent figure in the music industry. Based in Kentucky, he is known for his collaborations with acclaimed artists such as Joan Shelley and James Elkington.
In addition to his collaborative work, Salsburg's contributions can be heard on recordings by renowned musicians like Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Jake Xerxes Fussell, and Nathan Bowles. His expertise extends beyond performing; he also takes on the role of curator for the esteemed digital Alan Lomax Archive.

Third is the stunning third album by Nathan Salsburg, one of his generation’s most gifted and idiosyncratic acoustic guitarists. It’s been five years since his last solo record (Hard for to Win and Can’t Be Won, 2013) — but not because he hasn’t been playing guitar. In the intervening years he’s backed up Joan Shelley on three releases and several hundred live dates; put out a collection of guitar duets with multi-instrumentalist James Elkington; teamed up with fellow Louisvillian andneighbor Bonnie “Prince” Billy on an EP; and contributed playing to records by The Weather Station, Wooden Wand, Watter (what’s with the Ws?), Jake Fussell, and Red River Dialect. Meantime he’s also managed to keep his head above water at his day job ascurator of the Alan Lomax Archive. The original pieces on Third, his first strictly solo guitar record—no singing, no guests—were composed in fragments of down-time, with little expectation that they would ever come to comprise a collection: Impossible Air, was written in a converted cow-shed outside of Eeklo, Belgium; Sketch from Life, while watching college basketball on TV. Exilic Excursions resisted completion for nearly four years. The songs, as others have before them, distill a love of old-time dance music and rural ragtime; the melody-centric compositions of American guitarists Peter Lang and William Ackerman; and the work of Scottish and English folk-revivalists like Dick Gaughan, Dolly Collins, and especially Nic Jones, whose monumental arrangement of the pipe tune Planxty Davis has been adapted here in turn. And they all display a notable increase in confidence and ease, as Salsburg has quietly, persistently established a style marked by a depth and a complexity that are utterly his own.

Third

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