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Artist
Bob Hadley
12+ albums
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about
Chances are, if you've come across the music of Bob Hadley, it will be by way of Celtic Reverie, the track included in the seminal first volume of Tompkins Square's Imaginational Anthems series. However, between 1973 and 1980, Bob released three Takoma-influenced albums of finger style guitar, augmented with some nifty bottleneck: Raven, Tunes from the Well and On the Trail of the Questing Beast, all on Stefan Grossman's Kicking Mule label. The albums constituted a body of work any self-respecting acoustic guitarist would be proud of, with melodic original compositions sitting seamlessly side by side with traditional tunes and the occasional carefully chosen cover. Contemporary reviews bear this out: Guitar Magazine of London called him "a genius of melody, extolling the virtues of his haunting sound". Meanwhile, Guitar Player described him as "a fingerpicking talent on a par with anyone recording today". User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
albums
The Raven
On The Trail Of The Questing Beast
Tunes From The Well
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Imaginational Anthem
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Imaginational Anthem (1965-2005)
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Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 1
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Imaginational Anthem Vol 1
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Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 1-3
Imaginational Anthem Vols. 1-3
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Imaginational Anthem: A Guitar Anthology
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Imaginational Anthem - Volume 1
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