The Guitar Wizardof North Florida

Sam Pacetti is one who brings it all together: a fingerstyle guitar wizard, a deft songwriter capable of haunting depth and wry humor inside a single song, and an impassioned vocalist who melds head-spinning guitar pyrotechnics with raw emotion in one breathtaking package. His most important mentor was legendary Florida musician Gamble Rogers, who took him under his wing and instilled a deep respect for storytelling and the craft of performance.

Tradition and innovation balance neatly in his music, the whole infused by a relentless intelligence intent on musical and philosophical synthesis. Martin Simpson, Richard Thompson, Joni Mitchell and Merle Travis are touchstones, and while the American primitive school of guitar wizardry runs all through the work, so does an earthy sensuality closer to a red dirt blues master than to any musical academician.