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@audio-b-dog 

I’ve never had the natural right hand coordination or the patience to learn that style. Back in high school, my original guitar mentor was an excellent fingerpicker. When I askef him how he developed it, he said his fingers "just seemed to know where to go". 

I’ve seen Jorma once solo and twice with Hot Tuna. I bought Quah on vinyl when it first came out and am still enjoying it. He did an album with some Bluegrass/Newgrass hotshots (don’t recall the title) you might like. "Blue Country Heart"?  

There was something inside the earliest humanity that could only have been expressed through music and other arts, and humanity was obsessed with expressing whatever that was. For so many reasons, especially humanity's early obsession with the sky and stars, I belive that humanity felt connected to the univese. And music was a call to all existence that we too belonged. And that to me is spirituality. 

I understand you. I consider many didgeridoo Australian music spiritual.... Pygmies chorus too ...

By spirituality i had not suggested only Christianity, but any inside deeply moving relation with God or Nature as sacred...

Your observation about Mozart going from genius to deeply spiritual is my observation too ..

But the relation with Nature which is sacred music is different from Hildegard Of Bingen  or Tallis  moving spirituality toward God. But the other day i was listening Russian female chorus performing pilgrim songs ( song suggesting walk and prayers) it was very near the pygmies songs ... The relation between men of the same tribe and walking and praying or singing in Nature is sacred  music... It is why i loved it...

i cannot listen only geniuses composers or musicians... I need also spiritually, sacred Christian, Buddhist or African or Indian devotion music...

Music without spirituality cannot fulfill all my musical needs so genius it is... 

Poetry is also bordeline to  the sacred or the spirit or the religious...

Think about Leonard Cohen singing   about Joan of Arc...

Or even Dylan singing "murder no foul" is a sacred  musical event in the US history...

Music without spirituality or poetry is not very interesting for me...

The 8th book of madrigals of Monteverdi is pure poetry...

Poetry gives us a minimum of spirituality...

@audio-b-dog - John Fahey - straight outa Takoma Park, MD. He can really take you on a journey with just one acoustic guitar. Brilliant records, brilliant live performances.... 

@larsman 

I went to a number of John Fahey concerts in Berkeley. He must have settled there for a while. They were engrossing, and I still have my beat-up John Fahey album from the sixties. In terms of one guitar engrossing an audience, perhaps classical guitar is the only other thing that will do it. And at the top of my list is the Villa Lobos Preludes. They are as deep and dark and haunting as a poem by Lorca. One's from Spain and the other's from Brazil, I know, but in my mind they share the same duende--darkness of the soul.

@audio-b-dog - Indeed, he may have resided in the Bay Area for awhile. His record label, Takoma Records, was named after Takoma Park, and there are lots of suburban-DC Maryland references in his song titles, like 'Dance of the Inhabitants of the Invisible City of Bladensberg'.

I think I may have seen him at Freight and Salvage or the Starry Plough. I'm from MD but have lived in San Francisco for 50 years.