Jack Rose, R.I.P.

[Chalupa]

Arthur magazine is reporting that guitarist Jack Rose has died. No other info is available. I'm in shock. I just saw him at a bar two nights ago, sitting just a few bar stools away. He looked happy and healthy.

Forgot to add this...

http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/12/05/remembering-jack-rose/

Edited December 5, 2009 by J.H. Deeley

[7/4]

I'd like to know more...I hung out with him a few times.

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[Chalupa]

Early word is heart attack. Not confirmed.

[Joe]

Very sad news; incredibly talented guitarist who -- based on his recent discography -- seemed to be branching out and beginning to do some really exploratory work.

[7/4]

Young too.

I knew him from Pelt. They used to hang out with some friends of mine.

[skeith]

I liked one of his cds very much. This is sad.

[7/4]

http://www.spinner.com/2009/12/05/jack-rose-dies/

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[clifford_thornton]

I saw him around 2000/2001 in a bar doing a solo set; I'd done my fair share of Takoma listening and wasn't that impressed. In light of his passing and the extensive discography that he built over the last decade, I sort of regret not investigating him further. Clearly he was following in a tradition with as much heart as brain.

[Chuck Nessa]

Death of an artist is always bad, but some folks from Chicago might think of a completely different guy.

[Chalupa]

I'd like to know more...I hung out with him a few times.

Here are some remembrances written by people who knew him well and not so well....

http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Features/Jack_Rose_Obituary.htm

and

http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/12/05/rememb...age-1/#comments

http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/12/05/rememb...-rose/#comments

[clifford_thornton]

Another one here.

[7/4]

NY Times.

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[AllenLowe]

very sorry about his death; that whole school of playing, from Fahey on, I find to be well-meant but lacking in intensity, a little too-reliant on open tuning and the more obvious things it allows.

but this guy was too young to go. Sounds like a sincere guy.

[Chalupa]

Philly memorial concert announced.....

http://www.settingsuns.org/luckinthevalley/

[Chalupa]

http://citypaper.net/articles/2010/02/11/blues-for-jack-rose

[Chalupa]

More...

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20100209_Remembering_an_acoustic_artist.html

[Chalupa]

http://www.phrequency.com/blog/Philly_pays_tribute_Remembering_Jack_Rose.html

[Chalupa]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123861353

[Neal Pomea]

very sorry about his death; that whole school of playing, from Fahey on, I find to be well-meant but lacking in intensity, a little too-reliant on open tuning and the more obvious things it allows.

Can you explain what you mean by lacking in intensity, and why this kind of playing should be intense? I would say that Robbie Basho's music is quite intense, especially the music on his compilation, Guitar Soli.

The Japanese sounding stuff is intense, such as Golden Shamrock.