Back To Artist
Rolf Sturm : Shawangunk
Log in to add to your wishlist
"...a distinct and compelling acoustic (guitar) voice... Rolf is also a master of scrumptious chord motion... Shawangunk is the pure expression of his nylon-strung artistry." -TONY TRISCHKA
Genre: Folk: Gentle
Release Date: 2005
Shawangunk Record Label: Water Street Music
  • Buy CD - $12.97
Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Ripple 5:40 Album Only
Days Of Wine and Roses 4:35 Album Only
Green Arches 2:57 Album Only
P.S. Prudence 3:42 Album Only
Watermelon Man 2:48 Album Only
Margie 2:26 Album Only
Alexander 4:10 Album Only
Winter Solstice 3:24 Album Only
O Galo 3:21 Album Only
Egberto 3:47 Album Only
Earl Jean 3:09 Album Only
Oh Father 3:30 Album Only
Nauset Bay 1:37 Album Only
D's Dance 1:46 Album Only
Sing Song 3:11 Album Only
Down From the Hallway 2:16 Album Only
Kant Strasse 3:52 Album Only
Royal Sushi 3:07 Album Only
preview all songs

Album Notes

Rolf Sturm is a NY/NJ area guitarist who has performed and/or toured with banjo pioneer Tony Trischka, drummer Billy Martin, country singer Eddy Arnold, the Argentinean tango group New York-Buenos Aires Connection, the Grateful Dead big band Illuminati, Rob Henke's Washington Street Players, klezmer clarinetist Giora Feidman, and the Walter Thompson Orchestra. He also leads his own New York City area bands Feed The Meter and Just Cause.

Rolf has toured North America and Europe, performing at the World Expo 2000 in Hannover, Germany, and at Lincoln Center and Town Hall in New York City. He has performed on soundtracks for both film and television and has released many CDs on the Water Street Music label. Rolf has recorded dozens of CDs as a sideman, appearing on recordings with Loudon Wainwright, Glen Velez, Maggie Roche, Ike Willis, Dave Douglas, Cameron Brown, Jorma Kaukonen, David Johansen, and Pat Boone!?!

Rolf graduated from Ithaca College, with a BFA in Jazz Guitar. He has studied with John Abercrombie, Jim Hall, Bill Frisell, and Joe Pass.

Read more...

REVIEWS