Joseph Spence - Encore: Unheard Recordings of Bahamian Guitar & SingingEncore is a new album produced from previously unheard archival recordings by the legendary Bahamian guitarist Joseph Spence, made in 1965 at the height of his career. Spence's radically innovative guitar style transformed elements of Bahamian traditional music into adventurous, joyful improvisations and influenced players worldwide. His powerful singing stemmed directly from the rhyming tradition created by Bahamian sponge fishermen early in the 20th

But the instrument's true adoption into art music really began the following century in the German-speaking world

pianist/orchestra leader/composer/arranger Luis Russell

and daydreaming about a lover

Full of rich lyricism

pianist/ guitarist Ralph Towner

As well as intense sets on the Vans Warped Tour and at Rockstar Uproar Fest

and diverse as this band

A disgusted Rusty storms out of the office

they investigate the mysterious sickness that is blighting the area

1996's On Avery Island and 1998's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea give voice to the perennial spirit of youthful epiphany

Edward William Whitt Jr III began singing at age three for friends and family

and the Orchestra's first Principal Conductor