Colin Allured

Colin Allured is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts in classical guitar. He has also performed and recorded with the original rock group Thinking Plyers for the past 13 years. He plays solo in Winston-Salem weekly and is available for gigs and recordings.



Family Tree: If Van Morrison and Willie Nelson had a baby, with Sam Cooke and Nina Simone the grandparents on the Morrison side, and John Lennon and Steely Dan(use your imagination) the grandparents on the Nelson Side, and the abundant cousins including Paul Simon, Bob Marley, Leonard Cohen, Bjork etc. You get the Lineage that birthed Colin Allured musically. But this is simply the last generation. Founding Fathers of Classical Music both Western and East Indian as well as all the folk musics of all cultures are the great ancestors of this musician.



Writing Lineage is Sufi Mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.



One learns from true teachers not by mere imitation, but by imbibing the essence of the teacher and then using it the context of the pecularities of ones own life and mind and thoughts and heart and time.

The natural result in relating to ones teachers in this way is originality.