Marisa Anderson

Multi-faceted guitar player Marisa Anderson has been playing solo 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.