Along with the likes of John Fahey and Leo Kottke, Peter Walker is recognised as
one of America's most original and adventurous guitarists, noted for blending
fingerstyle folk music with Indian raga, Spanish flamenco and many other musical
cultures. Born into a musical family in Boston, Massachusetts, he started
playing guitar as a boy and became a fixture on the Greenwich Village folk
scene. He also studied under the great sitar player Ravi Shankar and Hindustani
classical musician Ali Akbar Khan and formed a close alliance with the
free-thinking hero of the psychedelic generati...