Article: Peter Lang: acoustic reanimator.

From 1972 to 1978, Peter Lang was one of the premier "American Primitive" artists on the late John Fahey's Takoma Records. But after releasing three instrumental acoustic albums and appearing on 1974's John Fahey/Peter Lang/Leo Kottke--which rose to the top of Billboard's FM radio chart--Lang suddenly called it quits, became an executive producer for animated films, and didn't do any serious guitar playing for the next 24 years. But now tang has returned to the guitar fold with Dharma Blues [Horus]--an album that displays his fragile fingerpicking, vicious slide work, and an uncanny ability to mix virtuosic technique with tenderness and soul.

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