Terry Robb

ACOUSTIC GUITAR

Terry Robb is an awarding-winning fingerstyle guitarist, singer, composer, arranger and record producer. His work is featured in Hollywood films, documentaries and biographies, such as Game of Thrones, The Horse Whisperer, and Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist.

He is associated with the American Primitive Guitar genre through his collaborations with Fahey, and is regarded as a virtuoso of acoustic blues guitar. Living blues magazine has called him " One of the finest Acoustic guitarists on the international scene" In his multi-decade career, Robb has released 17 critically acclaimed solo recordings, and performed at festivals and concert halls across the United States, Canada and Europe.

Robb has produced and performed with  John Fahey, Curtis Salgado and most recently David Vest to name a few.  Terry Robb is an award winning artist, and his recordings have been praised by the likes of Charlie Musselwhite to Oprah Winfrey. Robb is a member of the Recording Academy, Oregon Music Hall of Fame and Cascade Blues Association Fall of Fame.  The Cascade Blues Society Best Acoustic Guitar award is named in his honor. 

Workshops

  • Covering Alternate Thumb picking of Mississippi John Hurt  and Piedmont playing and  the advanced Ragtime playing of Gary Davis and  Blind Blake.

    Monotonic playing in the Style of Lighning Hopkins and Robert Johnson.

    Delta Blues of Son House, Charley Patton and others.

  • Standard and Open tunings. Looking at the  Delta Blues playing of Charley Patton, Son House Fred McDowell and post war playing of Elmore James and Muddy Waters

  • Keys' of G, D and others. Chord shapes and playing melodies

  • Soloing in the style of Lonnie Johnson, T Bone Walker and others. Playing Rhythm behind in a band and as a duo. 

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