Nine performances across genres where a single guitar line is doing all the structural and emotional work, and everything else is scaffolding.
Buddy Guy: Tiny Desk Concert
NPR Music
buddy guy, decades in, still bending every note new
ALSO IN Same desk, forty years apart
City of the Sun - Hotel Alma | Audiotree Live
Audiotree
no vocalist, no drop-off, the guitar just keeps going
All Them Witches - The Marriage Of Coyote Woman (Live on KEXP)
KEXP
the riff never lets go for six minutes straight
ALSO IN The volume doesn't fix it
Adrian Quesada: Tiny Desk Concert
NPR Music
the desk gets a producer who plays like it's live
ALSO IN The desk doesn't grow
Macario Martinez: Tiny Desk Concert
NPR Music
chicano soul run through one very patient guitar
The Wedding Present - Hot Wheels (Live on KEXP)
KEXP
strumming so fast it becomes its own instrument
ALSO IN Not exactly a discovery
Gurriers - Top Of The Bill (Live on KEXP)
KEXP
the guitar is the argument, not the accompaniment
Yeah NO - He Has A Pair Of Dice (Live on KEXP)
KEXP
a riff doing the job three chords usually can't
TWEN - Tumbleweed (Live on KEXP)
KEXP
reverb-soaked, but the guitar still finds the melody
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