Artist description original acoustic percussive/fingerstyle guitar

Music Style world jazz acoustic

Musical Influences Pat Metheny, Jimi Hendrix, Bill Evans, John Coltrane

Similar Artists Joni Mitchell, Pat Metheny, Michael Hedges, Bill Evans, Tommy Emmanuel

Artist History Preston Reed is the only acoustic guitarist to have been signed by four major record labels,Preston Reed is an acoustic guitarist of the highest critical acclaim. A composer and leading light in stylistic creativity, Preston astounds and enchants his audiences around the globe. His playing is ferocious, percussive and devilishly dextrous, intertwined throughout this is his ability to produce reflective and luxuriously melodic compositions that are a sheer joy for their intensity of talent, precision and depth of feeling. Preston has shared stages with Bonnie Raitt, Lyle Lovett, Linda Ronstadt and Tommy Emmanuel among others. In 1997 he appeared in a momentous and historic live satalite TV broadcast that had an audience of 120million viewers in 17 countires and culminated in an improvised cross cultural jam that drew a flood of calls from around the world.

Group Members Preston Reed

Instruments acoustic guitar

Albums Handwritten Notes (Outer Bridge), Ladies Night (Outer Bridge), Metal (Outer Bridge), Border Towns (Liberty), Halfway Home (Capitol), Blue Vertigo (Captiol), Instrument Landing (MCA), The Road Less Travelled (Flying Fish), Playing By Ear (Flying Fish), Don't Be A Stranger (Fonitcetra), Pointing Up (Flying Fish), Acoustic Guitar (Sky), Groovemasters Vol. 1 (Solid Air)

Press Reviews "A conspicuous guitar genius..." Austin American Statesman. "A musician of uncommon gifts, he riffs with the conviction and guts of a heavy metal band yet plays the blues with the subtlety of that most delicate of jazz pianists, Bill Evans" The Herald U.K. "I want to rave about Preston Reed's 'Metal', the title track, an acoustic tribute to heavy metal will drop your jaw" Playboy "Handwritten Notes should be a bible for anyone looking at the extended possibilties of the acoustic guitar" Billboard Magazine critics choice. "He's spiraling outward, pushing the borders of standard six or eight bar tunes" Gavin Report. "Reed's fingers work magic to the bone" MTV Asia. "A living guitar legend in his own right" Minor7th. "Inspiring" Michael Hedges. "If you get one solo acoustic guitar album this year, Handwritten Notes is the one" Echoes

Additional Info Tower Records voted Handwritten Notes on of the top 10 CDs for the year 2000 in Pulse, it was voted one of the top 10 CDs of the year by Echoes listeners

Location Girvan, Scotland - United Kingdom

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