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Jack Rose is a guitarist, originally from Virginia, USA. In the mid ’90s he joined the noise/drone group Pelt with Patrick Best and Mike Gangloff. Over the course of ten years and a dozen records, Pelt transformed slowly from an electric group, heavily influenced by Sonic Youth, the Dead C and Theater of Eternal Music-style minimalism to an acoustic group showing the strong influence of John Fahey. Rose, meanwhile, relocated to Philadelphia and began to take fingerpicking seriously. In 2002 he released his first solo LP Red Horse and White Mule, followed in 2003 by Opium Musick, both on the Eclipse Records label. (The two LPs were subsequently issued together on one CD by VHF as Two Originals Of…) Raag Manifestos followed in 2004 and Kensington Blues (both on VHF) in 2005.

His recorded collaborations outside of Pelt have been infrequent but include Jason Bill of Charalambides, Tom Carter, Donald Miller of Borbetomagus, Glenn Jones of Cul de Sac, Eric Carbonara and Ian Nagoski.

1	White Mule full track	80
2	Sunflower River Blues full track	62
3	Kensington Blues full track	61
4	Cathedral et Chartres full track	59
5	Flirtin' With the Undertaker full track	51
6	Cross the North Fork full track	48
7	Rappahanock River Rag (For William Moore) full track	47
8	Calais to Dover full track	45
9	Now That I'm a Man Full Grown II full track	41
10	Revolt full track	34
11	Linden Ave Stomp full track	33
12	Red Horse full track	27
13	Levee full track	26
14	Blessed Be the Name of the Lord full track	25
15	Mountaintop Lamento full track	24

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Babs_05 wrote:
last month

NNME recommends :)

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ookunoki wrote:
last month

i've had dr ragtime and pals on vinyl for months - thank you terrastock :)

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CroMagsRule wrote:
last month

'dr ragtime and pals' vinyl is forthcoming with 3 songs lopped off (at the request of Jack).

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adamcooleyisdea wrote:
July 2008

jack rose is awesome.

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nadirauxpommes wrote:
June 2008

More Fahey please! More Fahey please!!!

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ascensionday wrote:
June 2008

Holy shit. If you had told me that the songs on his self-titled slide album could be done better, I would have punched you in the face. But the Dr. Ragtime versions are somehow even better! God this guy blows my mind.

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BarahSachman wrote:
April 2008

Jack Rose is from Fredericksburg! like me! God Bless you Jack Rose!

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mcgillroy wrote:
January 2008

all his stuff available full-track here. wow - I am going to subscribe. cool!

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analogonz wrote:
December 2007

james blackshaw is also great. don't compare god with another god, dude.

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ascensionday wrote:
October 2007

Jack Rose makes James Blackshaw look like James Hackshaw. He's also very fun to interview.

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wishipu wrote:
June 2007

beatifull and raw fingerpicking album from mexico: http://www.last.fm/music/Fran%C3%A7oiz+Coballa/9%252F04%252F2007

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BackwardsBoy wrote:
May 2007

please please please vote in a new pic

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zoharma wrote:
April 2007

Ive seen him in NYC last month. I just love his music. My first reason to buy an album on iTunes, Than I bought the rest of his albums from him personally.

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Abu-Dun wrote:
April 2007

Jack Rose is a Band from Hildesheim, Germany, too.

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narlus wrote:
February 2007

jack rose photos. http://narlus.zenfolio.com/p394164116/ what a goddamn great player. could listen to him all waking moments.

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ngc1976 wrote:
January 2007

This is awesome, although someone should give Mr. Rose a tissue so he isn't sniffing in his recordings.

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robzilluh wrote:
January 2007

genius

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future_wave wrote:
March 2006

It's a total mindf*ck that Jack comes from the band Pelt (ur-drone space/folk/noise). It makes the heady level of Jack's guitar ragas even higher than some of his predecessors.

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