Chicago
Tribune
December
18, 1999
by Rick
Reger
Although
the electric ax has long been the guitar experimenter's tool
of choice, the inherent limitations of the acoustic
six-string sometimes inspire utterly original approaches,
and guitarist Preston Reed is nothing if not original.
Applying a percussive two-handed technique and unorthodox
tunings to the steel-string guitar, Reed produces dense,
polyrhythmic music rooted in American folk idioms -- but
ranging well beyond them -- that's aesthetically pleasing
as well as technically astonishing.