Sanjay Mishra

Sanjay Mishra is the author of Guitar Atlas: India and has an intimate knowledge of the relationship between Indian music and the guitar. Born in India and now based in Virginia, he is an expert guitar player and a master at coaxing an Eastern sound from the Western instrument. Mishra plays a fretless guitar -- one with a perfectly smooth neck -- to allow the sliding notes and slurring tones that are integral to Indian music.

A decade after the release of Blue Incantation, his popular collaboration with the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, Mishra has released a new CD titled Chateau Benares