Janet Feder fits into the maverick folk-guitar revivalist camp inhabited by Americans John Fahey, Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho and Gary Lucas, and Brits Bert Jansch and John Redbourn (among others). But her penchant for experimentation also aligns her with madcap guitar improviser Fred Frith, even though Feder composes rather than improvises. Feder's formal training and prior concert career as a classical guitarist gives her music still another dimension.
Elliott Sharp's recent album Velocity of Hue "is of an intrinsically American, intrinsically blues, and specifically guitar derived music... He has developed a playing that is elegiac, lyrical and passionate, and uses several extended techniques of finger-tapping, harmonics and fretboard noise as well as a subtle sinuous acoustic feedback to extend notes at will. Few other players have managed to liberate the language of steel blues so completely - one is reminded of Leo Kottke's more surreal passages." - Wire Magazine, 2004