Avant Lardo by George John "LARDO" Larson

In the mid nineties George found a cassette of John Coltrane music in a car that he helped a friend take the engine out of, and scrap the car. On it was a recording of “My favorite things”. This was the first spark in his interest in free, out, improvised music. By 2005 he was finding and going to clubs that had people performing this music. He started wondering if he could perform this music too. The saxophone was his main interest. He found his blues background helped him in trying to emulate those sounds. This album is a snapshot of a dark bleak time in his music. When the only constructive thing for him to do on a Saturday night was to play his guitar. Because, everything else was shut down by the pandemic.

George John ”LARDO” Larson is a Chicago based artist. He was born in Chicago and has lived in the area for over fifty years. He is a singer, songwriter and guitarist of electric country blues. An experimental guitarist. A performance artist, and a visual artist. He has a day job doing construction work.

George started trying to play along with blues records in 1972.


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