Guitar Visionaries – Details, episodes & analysis

Guitar Visionaries is a podcast dedicated to guitarists who take the road less traveled - the tireless innovators working in jazz, rock, prog, experimental, neo-grass and many more.

The podcast is hosted by Sal Cataldi, a musician and writer based in the Hudson Valley, New York. Cataldi is best known for his work with his genre-leaping solo project, Spaghetti Eastern Music, and its raga and dub-driven quartet offshoot, Spaghetti Eastern Electro Dub. He is also a member of the ambient guitar duo, Guitars A Go Go, the poetry and music duo, Vapor Vespers, and the quartet, Spaceheater. His writing on music, books, and film has been featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, PopMatters, Seattle Times, Huffington Post, Inside+Out Upstate NY, and NYSMusic.com, where he is the book reviewer.

He is also the host of Reading Is Funktamental, a monthly one-hour podcast and radio show about great books written about music and music-makers. In each episode, he speaks to the authors of some of the best reads about rock, jazz, punk, world, experimental music, and much more, including musicians like Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera, Dave Mason and Robyn Hitchcock,