Joseph Allred

Joseph Allred is an American acoustic guitarist and composer from rural Tennessee, working in the American Primitive line of John Fahey and Robbie Basho. Allred's solo steel-string music also draws on country blues, bluegrass and the music of India and the Middle East, and has been released largely outside the record industry since the early 2010s. Joseph Allred played in Nashville-area heavy bands, among them Hellbender and Across Tundras, and made ambient and noise recordings, including the duo Graceless with Matt Johnson, before turning to solo acoustic guitar around 2011.