Kaki King's Influences

[michelej1]

Why is the reporter surprised that LB is a big influence? Why does King talk about Lindsey in the past tense. I know the site has been down since Friday, but has anything tragic happened to Lindsey since then?


From the New York Post:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04062008...tar_105200.htm


April 6, 2008 -- WITH her unusual approach to her instrument - all hammered-on notes and percussive thumps - Kaki King is often regarded as a burgeoning guitar hero. But her dulcet singing voice and soothing atmospherics betray a very different path than most who earn that title. As evidence of just how outside the guitar-hero norm she is, she cites one of her biggest influences as Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham.

Note her reaction when this reporter expresses surprise.

"Really? He's one of the greatest! That's crazy!" says King, 28, who brings her hard acoustic style to the Bowery Ballroom Wednesday night. "He was a great finger-picker, but played rock guitar with his fingers."