{"id":142536,"date":"2023-11-06T13:47:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T21:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/?p=142536"},"modified":"2023-11-06T13:47:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T21:47:59","slug":"review-mark-leggett-creates-a-timeless-world-of-his-own-on-folktown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/review-mark-leggett-creates-a-timeless-world-of-his-own-on-folktown\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Mark Leggett Creates a Timeless World of His Own on \u2018Folktown\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Mark-Leggett-Folktown-Earthsonix.jpg?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mark-Leggett-Folktown-Earthsonix\" class=\"wp-image-142537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Mark-Leggett-Folktown-Earthsonix.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Mark-Leggett-Folktown-Earthsonix.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Mark-Leggett-Folktown-Earthsonix.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mark Leggett, <em>Folktown<\/em> (Earthsonix)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Based in Los Angeles, composer\/guitarist Mark Leggett has staked a career in movies and television, writing scores for hundreds of films and projects ranging from <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/49oYi31\"><em>Anne Frank\u2019s Holocaust<\/em><\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3SpxoC2\"><em>Dinotasia<\/em><\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/49fDpHH\"><em>My Name Is Earl<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>He has a special genius for orchestral reworkings\u2014especially evident on the Netflix series <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3u6uBn7\"><em>Dolly Parton\u2019s Heartstrings<\/em><\/a><em>\u2014<\/em>and occasionally takes time to release solo work, including <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3QL4Rpe\"><em>Guitars &amp; Blackbirds<\/em><\/a> a 2023 album of Beatles covers, and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3MssEYP\"><em>Folktown<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>his first album of acoustic guitar compositions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years of working on documentaries, Leggett has become a master of tones and textures, of perfectly matching instruments and moods, of using tunings to create distinct, sonically rich backgrounds. Here, creating a world of his own, he turns his palette toward a timeless, placeless location: Folktown. In the six-note progression of \u201cSimple Conversation,\u201d he imagines a front porch dialogue that balances the call of a fingerpicked 1896 Joseph Bohmann steel-string with the response of a Takamine Hirade strung with nylon baritones. In \u201cGoldsboro Getaway,\u201d switching to slide, open E tuning, and a Taylor 352ce 12-string, he conjures a percussive, syncopated Piedmont blues that falls halfway between Blind Boy Fuller and Blind Willie McTell, equal parts sharp and sly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Mark Leggett - Folktown  (Live in-studio) - Guitar\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6XDm4Zcsh-M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are other guitars, other tunings\u2014a warm, lilting 1957 Gibson J-50 in open C, a reverbed electric-acoustic Carruthers ACS in dropped D, and an eerily melancholic Taylor 314ce tuned C# G# C# C# G# C#\u2014each with its unique voice, depth, and colors. The tracks are recorded with a delicate hand on the console and the strings, and taken together, they make for an album that\u2019s startlingly beautiful, Americana distilled into its essential, unknowable sweetness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leggett has become a master of tones and textures, of perfectly matching instruments and moods, of using tunings to create distinct, sonically rich backgrounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":142538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"Leggett has become a master of tones and textures, of perfectly matching instruments and moods, of using tunings to create distinct, sonically rich backgrounds.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[885],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1568],"class_list":["post-142536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Mark-Leggett.jpg?fit=750%2C492&ssl=1","authors":[{"term_id":1568,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"kenny-berkowitz","display_name":"Kenny Berkowitz","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Kenny-Berkowitz-Photo_web.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Kenny-Berkowitz-Photo_web.jpg"},"user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142586,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142536\/revisions\/142586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142536"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=142536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}