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'American Primitve' Captures Young Performers

NPR | By Joel Rose
Published December 3, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

An older style of acoustic music -- most deeply associated with guitarists John Fahey and Max Ochs -- is being revamped by younger musicians like Jack Rose and others featured on a new compilation, Imaginational Anthem.

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Joel Rose
Joel Rose is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. As the network’s transportation correspondent since 2023, Rose’s reporting focuses on roadway and pedestrian safety, an air travel system under stress and how emerging technologies are changing the ways we get around.
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