Rick Deitrick, the Unguitarist

The American primitive guitar player cached his gorgeous private press albums along remote West Coast mountain trails

Rick Deitrick, photo courtesy of Tompkins Square

Rick Deitrick once lived in a cabin in the Angeles National Forest – not the L.A. side, but the desert side, some miles outside of Victorville – for $10 a month.

Spending his days in the woods and mountains, he would carry his beaten-up acoustic guitar up the trail.

Sitting on boulders, overlooking the rive…