Charlie Schmidt keeps John Fahey’s flame burning

Few Chicagoans know that a living guitar legend is hidden away in the wilds of Skokie. Charlie Schmidt isn’t a blues firebrand or a metal shredder, but everyone who loves fingerstyle guitar should know his name.  Schmidt was a friend and sometime student of the late John Fahey, pioneer of the “American primitive” steel-string acoustic […]
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