The content ranges from lazy blues and rustic reveries to tiny, jewel-like arrangements of a handful of suspended harmonics. This is not your post-Basho lunge towards the unbounded beyond, but a cogent expression of well-formed ideas. Alongside brevity comes an estimable clarity each tune sets a mood, expresses a melody, and says goodbye. He has a thing for brevity the eleven pieces on this ten-inch, 33 RPM record add up to less than 20 minutes of music. Dream Lucky is Hasbrouck’s first vinyl release, and his first solo record in ten years. He also has a CD from 2001 available at that includes a few tips of the hat to John Fahey. But he is no newcomer to solo acoustic guitar. In his two most visible bands, The Northside Southpaws and The Pilsen Hot Five, he doesn’t even play guitar, sticking to conventional and resonator mandolins. John Hasbrouck mostly plays in Chicago-based combos that revive bluegrass, hot jazz, and old-time country.
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