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Bill Orcutt
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Bill Orcutt

Solo guitar sets built from blues, punk and repetition

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Four-string Telecaster lines, open-string drones and rude little riffs that keep shifting shape instead of resolving. His 2026 record leans into melody and motion, so this slot is likely to be more propulsive than purely abstract.

More about Bill Orcutt

Orcutt came up through DIY punk and long-form guitar damage, then kept circling back to blues vocabulary without sanding off the edges. Palilalia has been his home for a lot of the 21st-century guitar work, including the recent quartet-led Music In Continuous Motion.

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