Amidon News

With permission, I'm crossposting this story, written by my co-blogger, Chad Nodland over at North Decoder.

As a teenager, Amidon discovered guitar pioneer Frisell just as he himself was beginning to explore music that stretched the boundaries of the traditional folk music he grew up with.

Keith Murphy and Sam Amidon present a double bill of traditional song on Friday at 8 p.m., at Sandglass Theater.

Old, new, borrowed, original -- Sam Amidon blurs the distinction between these categories with his idiosyncratic adaptations of traditional American folk tunes.

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