Piece Description

Brooks Robertson just doesn't need much more than two thumbs, eight fingers and six strings on a wooden box to carry his listeners away.

A protegé of the late fingerstyle guitarist, Buster B. Jones, Brooks picked up the guitar at 11 and proceeded to make himself at home with it in short order.  By the time he was a teenager he had become the youngest endorsee of Godin Guitars and traveled to several states and foreign countries to perform.  At home in Eugene, Oregon, Brooks continues to hone his skills and tally up award after award and citation after citation, along with the deep admiration and respect from the greatest pickers among us.

Now, as energy and maturity come together, this young man is ready to step out of the shadows of his mentors with his own compositions and arrangements, and electrify the world with the sheer acoustic beauty he creates when touching a set of strings.  Tom May interviewed Robertson at Medicine Whistle Studios in Portland in the fall of 2011.