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Cian Nugent: Tiny Desk Concert

Cian Nugent performs at a Tiny Desk Concert in February 2014. Jim Tuttle/NPR hide caption

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Tiny Desk

Cian Nugent: Tiny Desk Concert

From an acoustic ragtime jaunt to an electric, basement-bar choogle to a sad-sack closer, the Dublin-based guitarist runs through his wild styles in the NPR Music offices.

Cian Nugent: Tiny Desk Concert

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Cian Nugent: Variations On A Black Flag Riff

"My War Blues" finds guitarist Cian Nugent drawing on Black Flag as a new source for American standards. Cait Fahey hide caption

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Song Of The Day

Cian Nugent: Variations On A Black Flag Riff

"My War Blues" finds the guitarist drawing on Black Flag as a new source for American standards.

'My War Blues' by Cian Nugent

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Friday

Cian Nugent: Flourishing In Mistakes

With drums, woodwinds and brass, acoustic guitarist Cian Nugent's 24-minute "Sixes & Sevens" studies a soul in rapturous torrent. Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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All Songs Considered

Cian Nugent: Flourishing In Mistakes

With drums, woodwinds and brass, acoustic guitarist Cian Nugent's 24-minute track examines a soul in rapturous torrent.

Sixes & Sevens

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Wednesday

Review

Second Stage

Cian Nugent: 'Knots'

Cian Nugent is a 19-year-old guitarist from Dublin, Ireland who self-released his debut EP in 2007 and has followed it up this year with the live EP, Childhood, Christian Lies and Slaughter. Inspired by acoustic guitar legends such as John Fahey, Nugent plays instrumental folk pieces heavy with nostalgia for early 20th-century American music.

Knots

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