Gary Lucas

Artist Description

Gary Lucas has been called "The Thinking Man's Guitar Hero" (The New Yorker), "A modern guitar miracle" (Rolling Stone) and "One of the 100 greatest living guitarists" (Classic Rock).

One area of guitar-playing he particularly excels at is performing solo acoustic.

As Gary has said before, this is his favorite arena to work in:

"Any electric guitarist can sound totally awesome cranked up to 11 in front of a wall of Marshalls, without necessarily possessing any real skills as a player. But in the solo acoustic mode, there's no place to hide. You're either going to be able to pull it off in front of an audience or you're not. It's my favorite mode of expression on guitar, it's like a little symphony orchestra, a total universe of sound at your fingertips. If I had to choose which guitar to take with me to a desert island, it would have to be my acoustic 1946 Gibson J-45—without a doubt."

A Gary Lucas solo acoustic concert is a tour de force, covering the length and breadth of Gary's Grammy-nominated songwriting, his arrangements of classical music, country blues, George Gershwin, 30's Chinese pop, music from Jacques Tati films, covers of Captain Beefheart and Jeff Buckley, Jewish children's music, and much much more.