Suni mcgrath biography sample
Suni mcgrath biography sample
Suni mcgrath biography sample format.
Adelphi Records, Inc.
Re-Release from Adelphi LP AD 1002
as download on GCD 1002
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Harold James “Suni” McGrath (July 7, 1943 - January 11, 2017), was an innovative 12-string guitarist whose experimentation with exotic scales, modes and polyrhythms were captured on recordings in the late 60s and early 70s.
McGrath’s distinctive style earned him a reputation among instrumental guitar aficionados alongside his contemporaries John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and Leo Kottke, despite having a small, long out-of-print discography and limited live performing career.
Born and raised in Indiana, McGrath grew up in a musical family of Irish and French descent.
His grandfather played Celtic music on the flute, he would hear traveling Appalachian fiddlers who came through town, and he listened to a gypsy music program on the radio. In 1960, Suni began hanging around the “Greenwich Village of the Midwest,” Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH, playing at a lo