{"id":126974,"date":"2021-12-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/?p=126974"},"modified":"2023-06-02T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T17:00:11","slug":"buffalo-nichols-blues-acoustic-guitar-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/buffalo-nichols-blues-acoustic-guitar-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Nichols\u2019 Blues Guitar Hits Hard in this Acoustic Guitar Sessions In Place Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For this Acoustic Guitar Session in Place, Buffalo Nichols<\/a><\/strong> performs \u201cHow To Love\u201d on a Recording King Tricone<\/a>. The track appears on Nichols’ self-titled album, which was favorably reviewed in our January\/February issue, read our review below.<\/meta><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Houston, Carl Nichols took a winding road to the blues, passing through a long series of Baptist church gigs, Milwaukee bars, European caf\u00e9s, and West African tours before returning to the States, breaking up his folk duo, and landing solo in Austin. Now billing himself as Buffalo Nichols<\/a>, he\u2019s writing songs that channel the music he heard growing up into a weary, deeply lived vision that\u2019s focused on \u201cputting more Black stories\u201d into acoustic blues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At heart, he\u2019s a storyteller, confessing the blues in tales of broken promises, gunshot wounds, traffic stops gone wrong, cross-eyed looks in the mirror, and late-night tours of Hell from people who swear they\u2019re \u201cgonna find out how bad things can get.\u201d Real bad, that\u2019s for sure, and despite all that suffering, there\u2019s a sweetness in Nichols\u2019 playing, which relies on open C# tuning, a brass slide on his ring finger, and a couple of rough-and-ready resonator guitars by Mule and Recording King. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After years as a journeyman, playing everything from country to death metal, Nichols distilled his influences into a restlessly contemporary, hard-hitting blues, calling on the ghosts of R.L. Burnside, Elmore James, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Bukka White, and a long line of blues-rock guitarists. On this startlingly good debut, Nichols stakes out a new name and a new style, finding a voice that perfectly fits the moment. And like the speaker in \u201cThese Things,\u201d he\u2019s ready to face the future head-on, knowing \u201cI\u2019m beaten and I\u2019m broken\/ but I\u2019m coming back for more.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This article originally appeared in the January\/February 2022<\/a> issue of Acoustic Guitar<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n

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