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Basket Full of Dragons on Paghead Nation

“If John Fahey is the Mississippi River of “American Primitive” acoustic steel-string guitar playing, Robbie Basho is the Ganges. If Fahey is the Everest, Basho is the Fuji. Though overshadowed in life and death by his fellow Mid-Atlantic area native, Basho—he was born Daniel R. Robinson, Jr. in 1940 and died at age 45 in 1986—has been the subject…