Chris Proctor
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"Chris is an excellent guitarist, one of the finest that these ears have
heard, and listening to his songs you can't help but wonder if you're hearing
just one musician or a whole roomful of fingerpickers."
-- Dirty Linen
Biography
Recordings
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Biography
Chris Proctor is
one of this country's most acknowledged performers and composers for the
steel-string guitar.
He has toured
the United States, Canada, and Mexico, has released five recordings of his
original compositions and
arrangements and three books of his transcriptions, and has taught his
techniques through hundreds of
guitar workshops and through authoring numerous articles for guitar
publications such as Acoustic Guitar
and Fingerstyle Guitar. His compositions are noted for their lyricism and
strong melodies, while his guitar
technique is set apart by his extensive use of alternate tunings and by his
pioneering applications of mutes,
slides, partial capos, and the electric violin bow.
He is a Flying Fish and Windham Hill recording artist, and former U.S.
National Fingerstyle Guitar
Champion.
Chris plays and endorses Taylor guitars. He plays both 6 and 12 string.
He makes his home in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Chris asked me to include links to
Rounder Records, and
Mel Bay.
Recordings
His Journey Home, Flying Fish CD471 (1989)
- Cheap Vacations
- Emperor's Choice
- White Rooms
- Morning Thunder
- La Loma
- His Journey Home
- The Coola Shores / The Glacier Lily
- Just Another Late Night Blues
- Fond Farewells
- Desert Dances
Steel String Stories, Flying Fish CD554 (1990)
- Interstate
- Restless Harbors
- Saturday's Prayer
- The Birthday Song
- The Penultimate House (On Salmon Beach)
- Webster's Revenge
- Larry's Latin Leap
- California Dreaming / Paint It Black
- Halfway
- From L.A. To Zaire
- Hewlett
- Serpentine
The Delicate Dance/Runoff, Flying Fish CD357 (1983/5)
This CD combines two earlier LPs. The first ten cuts are from
Runoff and the rest are from The Delicate Dance.
- Late Again
- An Introspection
- Phillip's Whimsy
- Sunset Medley
- Runoff
- Tiptoes
- Over the Pass
- Canyonlands
- Winfield Rag
- Sleepytime
- Stormwatch
- Swept Away
- Trip to Jackie's House
- Huckleberry Hornpipe
- Bells of the Harbor
- Bush Pilot Syndrome
- Seldovia
- Back to Scotland
- Delicate Dance (A Wedding Fantasy)
Travelogue, Flying Fish CD633 (1994)
- Mountaineer Creek
- War Games
- Ossana's Gift
- Valedictory
- Henry's Shuffle
- Emerald Winds
- Rambling Irishman/Southwinds
- Middle Fork
- Tammy/Oh, What a Beautiful Morning
- Seven-Oh-Four
- Ruby Tuesday
The Winfield Winners (CD/tab book anthology),
John August/Mel Bay Publications 1-800-66-GUITAR (1995)
- The Winfield Rag (Proctor)
Only Now, Flying Fish CD FF665 (1997)
- Adrenaline
- Tap Room
- Dialogues
- Three Jigs: The Rambler/Kitty's Wedding/Langstrom's Pony
- Slickrock Lament
- Hotspot
- Only Now
- October's Window
- Anymore
Chris also has tab books out: Travelogue, Fingerstyle Magic, Runoff.
An Only Now book is coming in September. You can write to Chris at
Box 520301, Salt Lake City, UT 84152 if you wish to order stuff directly
from him. Be nice and enclose a SASE.
Last modified 29 May 1997
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