Light On Dark Water

I've been doing a regular weekend music post for several years now, and the choices have generally been pretty random, reflecting whatever I happened to be listening to. But for the next year, just for fun, and just because I love the guitar in all its forms, I'm going to focus on that instrument, and present a different guitarist every week. I don't think I'll have too much trouble coming up with 52 of them. Most will be rock/blues, but I'll do classical,  jazz and folk, too. It'll be a lot of fun for me and I hope for you as well.

To get things started on a classy (heh) note, here is a piece from the first classical guitar album I ever bought, back in 1966 or '67: Julian Bream's Baroque Guitar. It was a lucky choice, I guess, because I probably had very little idea of what I was buying, but it's still one of my favorite classical guitar albums. This fugue is from one of Bach's violin sonatas.

For that matter, I think Bream is my favorite classical guitarist.  Not that I am a serious connoisseur of classical guitar; the guitar is actually not that high on my list of favorite classical instruments, below the bowed strings anyway. But I do like a lot of it. There's something very pure and strong about Bream's playing.