{"id":2174,"date":"2014-02-11T21:57:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T02:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:45:53","slug":"the-most-lyrical-guitarist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2014\/02\/11\/the-most-lyrical-guitarist\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Most Lyrical Guitarist”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amos Garrett \u201964<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Can you name the Wabash alumnus who is one of the world\u2019s most influential electric guitarists and has recorded with more than 150 artists, including Stevie Wonder, Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, and Jerry Garcia?<\/p>\n

Who has won two Juno Awards, the Canadian version of the Grammys?<\/p>\n

Whose one-take guitar break on Maria Muldaur\u2019s \u201cMidnight at the Oasis\u201d (the solo Stevie Wonder calls\u00a0 \u201cthe second best recorded solo of any instrument”) made that song a hit?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s Amos Garrett \u201964.<\/p>\n

We couldn\u2019t convince him to attend the Wally Tunes Symposium February 21 (extensive damage to his home on Alberta\u2019s High River during one of the worst floods in Canadian history is keeping him close to home), but his original song \u201cBert\u2019s Boogie\u201d is one of the tracks on the commemorative CD we\u2019ll be giving away to those attending the symposium.<\/p>\n

Page Stephens \u201965, who helped found the Wabash Folksong Club\u2014which brought to campus some of the leading folk and guitar acts of the 1960s, including the powerful Delta blues man Son House and folk music legend Doc Watson\u2014calls Garrett his guitar hero.<\/p>\n

In a story in the Summer 2002 issue of Wabash Magazine,<\/em> Page recalls the first time he heard Garrett play: “Amos and I were both Kappa Sigs, and the first time I heard him play his guitar\u2014an old Goya flat top which he probably has forgotten he ever owned\u2014I learned that there was much more to playing the guitar than I ever realized.”<\/p>\n

A writer for Scene Magazine<\/em> wrote in 2002 that \u201cthe reason that Garrett’s name floats along the periphery of pop music instead of the front lines is because Garrett eschewed mainstream rock to make consistently interesting music.\u201d That sounds like a Wabash man.<\/p>\n

\"a<\/a>Guitar Player<\/em> calls Garrett “one of the most lyrical and original guitarists playing today.”<\/p>\n

You can hear Amos\u2019s music all over the Web, but start with his site at Stony Plain Records.<\/a> And here\u2019s a youtube link to \u201cMidnight at the Oasis”<\/a> and that famous instrumental bridge. Amos\u2019s solo starts at about 1:21 in.<\/p>\n

Wally Tunes: Music and the Liberal Arts<\/a> is February 21 in the Fine Arts Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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