Kinloch Nelson - Partly on Time : Recordings 1968​-​1970 (2019)

Tompkins Square are to release an album by Rochester guitarist Kinloch (sounds like “kin-law”) Nelson. Nelson has been pretty much flying under the radar despite still having a performance schedule alongside teaching privately and conducting guitar workshops. It was thanks to Duck Baker that the guitarist was brought to the attention of Tompkins Square, who visited Rochester in 2018 supporting his own Tompkins Square archival release, Les Blues Du Richmond: Demos & Outtakes, 1973-1979 which Glenn Kimpton reviewed here.

Nelson studied classical guitar privately with Stanley Watson, jazz guitar with Gene Bertoncini at Eastman School of Music, and music theory at the University of Rochester. In 1973, he began teaching both privately and at The Hochstein Music School where he was on the faculty for twenty-five years. In 1985, Nelson co-founded the Guitar Society of Rochester, which during its ten-year run presented many of the world’s greatest guitarists. Nelson is the author of a book, Alternate Guitar Tunings.