While his guitar gently weeps

Tim Reynolds

Tomorrow, 9 p.m.

Rosebud, $17, 18+

(412) 261-2221

A simple guitar riff is… Tim Reynolds

Tomorrow, 9 p.m.

Rosebud, $17, 18+

(412) 261-2221

A simple guitar riff is tough to master for some people, but for others it is just that: simple. For guitarist Tim Reynolds the difficult riffs for average players are extremely simple. And he makes it look that way onstage as his fingers slide up and down the shaft of the guitar while he rapidly plucks away at the strings, taking his audience to a magical world that he recreates with every song.

The opportunity to experience this assault on your senses comes Tuesday night at Rosebud, when Tim Reynolds hits the stage as a one-man arsenal, ready to mystify and awe his audience for the entire 90-minute set.

Born to religiously strict and conservative parents in Weisbaden, Germany, his family moved all over the place and Reynolds never had a permanent home because his father was in the Army. He got his start with music at the age of 12, playing electric bass before congregations of ecstatic worshipers three times a week.

At 18, after secretly plunging into jazz and the “forbidden” late ’60s and early ’70s psychedelic rock, Reynolds left home to join a group of “experimental” musicians. He eventually settled in Charlottesville, Va., where he lived for 17 years. He now calls Santa Fe, N.M., his home.

With six solo studio albums already under his belt as well as contributing to practically every Dave Matthews Band album and other artists’ albums, Reynolds hits the road promoting his own new album, Chaos View, on his independent label TR Music.

With his wide-ranging musical ability from progressive rock, straight-up jazz and high powered funk fusion guitar, to bass, piano, sitar, mandolin, violin and a plethora of electric percussion instruments, Tim Reynolds, like a one-man wrecking crew onstage, hits his audience from every direction.