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Article: MORIÑA; Tomas Rodriguez speaks guitar
- Article from:
- Boise Weekly
- Article date:
- June 22, 2005
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Tomas Rodriguez's music is at once imposing and beautifully plain, even in the silence between notes. Part of you wants to close your eyes and inhale, and the other part has no choice but to marvel at the immaculate, unbroken cadence of loose fingers on tight strings. Balancing the languages of melody and story, Rodriguez plays like he's having a conversation, each sound as deliberate as the words he uses to talk about music.
Amazing that such monstrous talent could spring from an old 45 of "Pop Goes the Weasel." It was the first record Rodriguez ever heard, and after memorizing it, he moved on to the NBC Nightly News theme and a collection of Beethoven's symphonies, all before he was 6 ...
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