Merging the shuffling, lead-footed tales of the red-clay south with progressive songwriting and intricate, modern composition, Tony Furtado has joined peers like Kelly Joe Phelps as a new traditionalist genre bender of the finger-picked Delta blues style. His newest release, Bare Bones, captures Furtado alone on stage with nothing but an old guitar and a bag full of songs that span a career spent bridging the divides between American lands and cultures.
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