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Mixtape #125

02 April 2021


With another month comes another mixtape, this time round lovingly put together by Cameron Knowler and Eli Winter, two utterly brilliant guitarists with the nimblest of fingers. A winter tour in 2018 through the desert on the Texas-Mexico border ignited their friendship and musical bond, ushering in a new season of possibilities. A beautiful and delightful collection of jams titled Anticipation followed, where the two guitars complement and converse fluidly with one another, as if the two musicians had always been playing together. We've asked them to give us a peek at the artists and sounds that have inspired them and Cameron picked the first ten tracks with Eli taking over after that. Enjoy!

  1. Tut Taylor – Southern Filibuster [Rounder Records]
  2. Terry Allen – Amarillo Highway [Fate Records / Paradise Of Bachelors]
  3. Bola Sete – The Lonely Gaucho [Samba Moon Records]
  4. Eddy Arnold – Where the Mountains Meet the Sky [RCA VICTOR]
  5. Camille Feruzi – Kuyina
  6. Gram Parsons – Brand New Heartache [A&M Records]
  7. Ry Cooder – Straight Street [Fantasy / Perro Verde]
  8. Norman & Nancy Blake – Everybody Works but Father [Rounder Records]
  9. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou – Homesickness Pt. 1 [Buda Musique]
  10. Maybelle Carter – Come all ye Fair and Tender Ladies [Vanguard]
  11. Mark Fosson – The Creeper
  12. Sam Wagster – Falling Into Itself
  13. Judee Sill – The Desperado [Run Out Groove]
  14. Bert Jansch – Kingfisher [Kicking Mule Records Earth]
  15. The Cairo Gang – Coyote [Blackest Rainbow]

Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter set to release collaborative album Anticipation

04 February 2021

Photo: Mark Lewis

Anticipation is the collaborative instrumental album that brings together two young and brilliant Texan guitarists, Cameron Knowler and Eli Winter. Inspired by a trip through the desert on the Texas-Mexico border, Anticipation, as the press release explains, “document[s] a musical juncture between desert and city, Chicago and the Southwest, folk traditions and America’s musical avant-garde.” Knowler and Winter recorded most of the album over the course of one nine-hour session, with several recordings being first takes.

We´ll have to wait until March 12th for Anticipation to be out through American Dreams Records but Knowler and Winter have already let loose its gorgeous opener, ‘Strawberry Milk’. The single comes paired with a video, filmed and edited by Knowler.