“Django Reinhardt was our god – I played a Selmer Maccaferri-style guitar, grew a mustache, wore a suit... the whole thing”: Big Thief’s Buck Meek names 10 guitarists who shaped his sound

Buck Meek performs with Big Thief at Alcatraz in Milan, Italy on April 23, 2023.

Big Thief's rise from critical darlings to Grammy-nominated alt-rock elites over the past few years has been meteoric, but it hasn't tempered the band's restless experimentalism one bit.

If anything, the band's most recent full-length – the sprawling, 80-minute Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You – found their sound twisting and turning into fascinating new directions, all unified by the unique guitar interplay of Adrianne Lenker and Buck Meek.