Multi-faceted guitar player Marisa Anderson has been playing solo and and with various country/folk acts over the years. Her solo work typically involves her guitar, acoustic or electric, and nothing else -- no singing, no other band members (except in duets, of course). There is an improvisational quality to her work perhaps because her compositions often start out as improvisations. In some cases, as in her 2019 album, Golden Hour, the whole work is improvised in the studio, end to end. Her music borrows from an impressive array of genres, combining folk, country, blues, jazz, gospel, sometimes classical, and fusing them all into an epic musical backdrop for the wide open landscape of western US, and all the built in melancholy that goes with it. She is, by all counts, a guitar virtuoso with a captivating style.
William Tyler, Jack Rose, Leo Koetke
Anderson played with Dolly Ranchers, Evolutionary Jass Band, Jim White (of Dirty Three and Xylouris White)
If someone has to bring a guitar to the campfire, they'd better be playing this.