Songs for a Sunday: How is it I have never heard of Guthrie Govan?

Weekend Wrap-up: Sour Dough Music Monday: 2013

Songs for a Sunday: How is it I have never heard of Guthrie Govan?

Spoiler alert: If you don’t like electric guitar soloing, you will not enjoy this post.

What do you get when you throw Alan Holdsworth, Joe Satriani, Eddie Van Halen, Larry Carlton, and Frank Zappa into a pot and stir? You get Guthrie Govan. He won Guitarist magazine’s “Guitarist of the Year” award in 1993.

I have only heard of him now.

OK. He can play stuff that he’s written and practiced to death. But can he improvise?

I think he can.

-Leon

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Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, and a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words.

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