Roots And Branches

Paul Asbell's Roots And Branches (Further Adventures in Steel String Americana) features fourteen tracks, nine of which are instrumental. Asbell writes, "The roots of "classic" American guitar can be clearly traced to a small bunch of gifted players who devised their own styles, musical conventions and technical strategies to enable themselves to be a self-sufficient musical world. I discovered some of these early guitar pioneers in my dad's collection of depression-era '78's, and my life was changed forever. I've come up with the term "Steel-String Americana" to symbolize the legacy of these early acoustic pioneers, and released a CD with that title in 2002. For folks in the 21st century who take the time to listen, there's still an awful lot of nourishment coming up from those roots. On Roots And Branches, I continue my homage to that legacy, and, nourished thereby, hopefully sprout a few more branches. Maybe, someday, in the 22nd century, some young kid will swing on one of them!"