Live Music with Gen Obata

Artist Summary

Genres: Americana / flatpick / Acoustic

Roy Kasten writes,

"It's hard to square Gen Obata's music with his persona. With his wiry frame, heavy helmet of black hair (nearly imperceptibly flecked with gray), thick glasses and almost Sephardic features, Obata looks more like a physicist than a folk songwriter or flashy flatpicker. But his guitar playing has the emphatic muscularity of Lester Flatt and the illuminating melodicism of Doc Watson, who, like Obata, developed his style on old fiddle tunes transposed to guitar."