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As you may know, every Friday, Dusted Magazine publishes a series of music-related lists compiled by our favorite artists. I wrote the bios this week for two acoustic guitarists from Tompkins Square Records' compilation Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 3, Cian Nugent and Nathan Salsburg.

You can read all about them, and what they’re listening to (the Gun Club! Sizzla!), here:

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/735

I’ve written a fair amount about the Imaginational Anthem series, which began as a way to dig up recordings from the old Takoma-style fingerpickers (John Fahey is the marquee name here), as well as some of their younger followers. I wrote this story for Neumu about the first edition:

http://www.neumu.net/datastream/2006/2006-00002/2006-00002_datastream.shtml

I don’t have a copy of the third iteration of this series, so I can’t offer you a clip from either of the guys I email interviewed above. But why not celebrate this exceptional series with the song that gave it a name, “Imaginational Anthem,” played by Max Ochs, sometime in the late 1960s. (He has a famous cousin named Phil, in case you were wondering.)