Mario Escudero
Mario Escudero was a Spanish flamenco guitar virtuoso who, following in Ramón Montoya's footsteps as his early mentor and teacher, was among the first-wave guitarists to relocate to the United States in the early 1950s and popularize flamenco guitar as a concert instrument there. His 1955 Folkways recording Flamenco Guitar Solos was among the earliest widely distributed American solo-flamenco-guitar records.
the sound in question
1955
Flamenco Guitar SolosMario Escudero
we haven’t charted Mario Escudero yet
this stretch of the river isn’t mapped. we trace the watershed one artist at a time — and we’re always heading further upstream.