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Guitarist Phil Keaggy’s career spans more than four decades, includes 50-plus albums and exhibits acoustic and electric styles that range from new age to rock fusion.
His influences include classic rock heavyweights George Harrison and Jorma Kaukonen, jazz guitarists Pat Metheny and Allan Holdsworth, and progressive acoustic pioneer Michael Hedges.
Whether Keaggy is plucking his Olson, Taylor, Martin, McPherson or Charis acoustics, using multiple/partial capos simultaneously, jamming over looping textures (he was an early practitioner of using delay effects to loop and layer his guitar onstage) or generating violin-like textures and sustain using an E-Bow, he demonstrates a virtuoso approach. Amazingly, he does it all despite missing his right-hand middle finger, which he lost at age four in a water pump accident.
