Fleet Foxes * 4.20.11 * BBC Radio 1 Maida Vale Studio
28/Jan/2012 Filed in: Folk
A folk scene containing Fleet Foxes is a little like a 100-metres race containing Usain Bolt: everyone else is competing for second place.
The Seattle band's self-titled debut was an enchanting amalgam of traditional folk, hymnal music and Sixties pop that gained them comparisons with a contemporary Crosby, Stills & Nash or a bucolic Beach Boys.
Three years on, they have returned to our shores to promote its eagerly awaited follow-up, Helplessness Blues, which is released next month. On Tuesday it was Later … With Jools Holland; last night it was BBC's Maida Vale studios for a live showcase on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show. Glancing down from the studio's balcony, it was immediately clear that worldwide recognition hasn't heralded an overhaul of the band's wardrobe: plaid shirts, woolly hats and mighty beards remain de rigueur for these unflashy folkies. The music, however, has developed.
Montezuma's refrain of "oh my, what I used to be" was full of self-questioning and regret - recurring themes of the second album.
At the other end of the spectrum, Bedouin Dress's bouncy piano stabs and groovy bassline were more Steely Dan than Steeleye Span.
Battery Kinzie galloped on the stampeding beats of drummer Josh Tillman. Without turning the amps up to 11, Fleet Foxes have beefed up their sound.
They have also been joined by a new recruit, Morgan Henderson, who augmented the songs with flourishes of flute and violin. This brought a jazzier dimension to the new tracks, which owe something to Van Morrison's Astral Weeks.
The bedrock, however, remains the voice and guitar of frontman Robin Pecknold. Sim Sala Bim, a Nick Drake-esque ballad, showcased his dextrous finger-picking; the eight-minute epic The Shrine/An Argument pushed his tenor into its raspier reaches.
To speak about one voice in Fleet Foxes, of course, is to slightly miss the point: the real magic happens when their voices combine. Mykonos, one of only two tracks to be played from their debut, came wreathed in glorious four-part harmonies, while the a capella section that brought Grown Ocean - and this glorious 40-minute set - to a close was brave and brilliant.
-- BBC Radio 1
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Bon Iver * 8/4/11 * 9:30 Club, Washington DC
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Widespread Panic * Grand Targhee, Alta, WY * 7/2/11 Highlights
11/Jul/2011 Filed in: JamBand
Highlights from
Widespread Panic’s second of three shows at Grand
Targhee, Alta, WY, July 2, 2011. Check out
highlights
from the first night here.
Setlist: New Speedway Boogie* Slippin’ in to Darkness > Disco > Second Skin * Bear Gone Fishin' * I'm Not Alone * Ribs & Whiskey * e: Her Dance Needs No Body > Maggot Brain > Chilly Water
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Setlist: New Speedway Boogie* Slippin’ in to Darkness > Disco > Second Skin * Bear Gone Fishin' * I'm Not Alone * Ribs & Whiskey * e: Her Dance Needs No Body > Maggot Brain > Chilly Water
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Widespread Panic * Grand Targhee, Alta, WY * 7/1/11 Highlights
09/Jul/2011 Filed in: JamBand
I just got back
from a road trip to Wyoming, where I spent 2 weeks
visiting Yellowstone and Grand Tetons National Park and
got to catch 3 epic nights of WSP at Grand Targhee. It
was a long 4th of July weekend full of sunshine, snow,
camping, friends, starry nights and soaring, heartful
jams.
Targhee camping photo by Jim Stanford.
I plan on releasing several podcasts over the next couple of weeks featuring highlights from the Targhee run. This first podcast in the series condensing the first night on July 1, 2011 to my favorite songs and jams of the night. I know, I know -- for some people, editing down a full show to highlights is nearly sacrelige. For those listeners, the full shows are available for purchase at www.livewidespreadpanic.com/catalog or http://panicstream.com/vault/11.html.
Setlist: Ain’t Life Grand > Who Do You Belong To? * LDGTB * Use Me * You Should Be Glad * Ain't No Use > Drumz > Ride Me High > Pilgrims * Chainsaw City * E: City of Dreams
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My partner and I financed the whole trip by selling 100 t-shirts specific to the shows:
Enjoy goodpeople!
Targhee camping photo by Jim Stanford.
I plan on releasing several podcasts over the next couple of weeks featuring highlights from the Targhee run. This first podcast in the series condensing the first night on July 1, 2011 to my favorite songs and jams of the night. I know, I know -- for some people, editing down a full show to highlights is nearly sacrelige. For those listeners, the full shows are available for purchase at www.livewidespreadpanic.com/catalog or http://panicstream.com/vault/11.html.
Setlist: Ain’t Life Grand > Who Do You Belong To? * LDGTB * Use Me * You Should Be Glad * Ain't No Use > Drumz > Ride Me High > Pilgrims * Chainsaw City * E: City of Dreams
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Wilco * Sasquatch @ the Gorge Pt. 2 * 5.30.11
Recorded live at The Gorge on Monday, May 30, Wilco performs a two-hour, festival-closing set as part of the 2011 Sasquatch Music Festival outside Seattle, Wash. Courtesy of NPR/KEXP.
Jesus, Etc.
Airline to Heaven
Theologians
Walken
I'm the Man Who Loves You
Misunderstood
Spiders (Kidsmoke)
Encore
Hate it Here
The Late Greats
Heavy Metal Drummer
Hoodoo Voodoo
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Wilco * Sasquatch @ the Gorge Pt. 1 * 5.30.11
“Wilco never makes the second record twice, which makes it doubly remarkable that so many of them are tremendous. As formidable as frontman Jeff Tweedy's catalog is, the sonically inventive rock band really stands out on stage — the place where extreme technical skill meets the chemistry and rousing showmanship of passionate rock veterans. Of course, it helps that the group has the luxury of drawing highlights from seven very different records when it performs. To see Wilco on stage is to hear the best of the best.”
Recorded live at The Gorge on Monday, May 30, Wilco performs a two-hour, festival-closing set as part of the 2011 Sasquatch Music Festival outside Seattle, Wash. Courtesy of NPR/KEXP.
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Ashes of American Flags
Bull Black Nova
Company in my Back
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
Kamera
Handshake Drugs
One Wing
Shot in the Arm
I'll Fight
War on War
Via Chicago
Impossible Germany
Widespread Panic * Highlights from the 25th Anniversary Shows * 2/11/11
07/Mar/2011 Filed in: JamBand
Here is the promised second podcast featuring highlights of the recent Widespread Panic 25th anniversary shows at the Classic Center in Atlanta, GA. This episode hones in on the most unforgettable jams of February 11, 2011. You can listen to and download February 10 highlights here. And if this sampler isn’t enough to satiate your appetite, go forth and purchase both shows in their glorious entirety at www.livewidespreadpanic.com.
Track listing: Barstools & Dreamers, Knights in White Satin (The Moody Blues), Blue Indian, New Speedway Boogie (Grateful Dead), Fishwater, Conrad the Caterpillar, Don’t Be Denied (Neil Young), Postcard, Driving Song, Porch Song.
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Widespread Panic * Highlights from the 25th Anniversary Shows * 2/10/11
22/Feb/2011 Filed in: JamBand
For your jamtastic listening pleasure, DJ Fundi has put together a 2-part mix featuring highlights of the recent Widespread Panic 25th anniversary shows at the Classic Center in Atlanta, GA. This episode features my favorite moments from the February 10, 2011 show -- we’ll post highlights from the following night next week. I know that purists will be horrified to hear a Panic show edited and blended in this fashion, but oh well -- one can purchase the shows in their glorious entirety at www.livewidespreadpanic.com. Get ready for some amazing jams, funky grooves and southern soul in these transmissions, and we hope you enjoy them as much as we do! Panic is sounding frickin’ awesome 25 years later...no small feat.
Track listing: For What It’s Worth (Buffalo Springfield; first since 11/22/88), You’ll Be Fine (first since 11/12/01), Proving Ground, Arleen (with Randall Bramblett on saxophone) > Drums > Fire on the Mountain (Grateful Dead; first since 10/2/88) > Space Wrangler > Coconut, Bowlegged Woman, Heaven (Talking Heads).
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Interesting to note that Panic opened up their very first show with Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” 25 years ago (almost to the day) at the Mad Hatter Ballroom on 2/6/86!
Here’s a review of the 2-night stand, from Honest Tune: The Southern Journal of Jam:
“How many bands can you think of that have made it 25 years, continuing to enamor their fans? The first groups that likely come to mind are bands as highly regarded as the Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers Band, or the Rolling Stones; both of whom have persevered through the loss of key members, addiction, health issues, and an ever changing standard of what is considered "good" music. The lesser known Widespread Panic is a recent addition to this list and in their 25 years together, they have experienced momentous highs and endured through unthinkable lows. To the delight of a nation of devoted fans, "The Boys" who met in Athens, GA back in 1986 chose to celebrate the occasion by playing three unforgettable shows at two historic venues.”
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Iron & Wine on Daytrotter Winter 2011
21/Jan/2011 Filed in: Video
Sam Beam performs songs from the new Iron & Wine album “Kiss Each Other Clean” at Daytrotter, January 2011.
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Widespread Panic * 6.26.10 * Red Rocks, CO
10/Jul/2010 Filed in: JamBand
One of the hardest workin, hardest playin bands on the road, the legendary Athens, GA southern-fried jamband Widespread Panic at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado. In the interest of keeping the podcast a reasonable size and length, this episode features highlights from the show -- you can stream or download the full show at http://panicstream.com.
06/26/10 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
I: Better Off, Henry Parsons Died, Dirty Side Down > Rock, Clinic Cynic, You Should Be Glad, Pilgrims, Love Tractor, Pleas > Bust It Big > Mr. Soul
II: Makes Sense To Me, Surprise Valley > Hatfield > Surprise Valley, Driving Song > Arleen > Driving Song, Saint Ex, North > Chilly Water > Interstellar Overdrive > Chilly Water
Encore: Up All Night> Junior
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Charlie Hunter Quartet * 5.13.03 * Seattle
31/May/2010 Filed in: Jazz
Here's a Charlie Hunter show at Seattle's Jazz Alley that I recorded on my minidisc way back in 2003. The sound isn't spectacular but the energy of the performance makes up for it in the first few minutes. The band is really swinging, getting down and dirty, bringing a joyful New Orleans sound to the intimate stage. I can't say for sure who is playing at this gig with Charlie, except for reliable saxophone sidekick John Ellis -- Seattle saxman Skerik joins the band for a long encore jam that is a highlight of the show.
I'm happy to be able to share this moment of music that I recorded and hope you enjoy listening to it. Charlie is always touring, so check his live game out!
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April 13, 2003 - A snappy new CD by the Charlie Hunter Quintet called Right Now Move on Ropeadope Records features harmonica, sax, trombone, drums, and some tasty staccato guitar chords underpinned by a funky bass line — but there's no bass player listed in the liner notes.
That's because Hunter does double duty, playing bass and guitar lines with his custom-made eight-string guitar. The 35-year-old player grew up in the San Francisco Bay area playing a more typical six-string guitar, taking lessons at age 14 from master guitarist Joe Satriani. But Hunter's interest in the complex jazz of players like Joe Pass and Tuck Andress led him to the conclusion that six strings just weren't enough.
His current band includes: harmonica player Gregoire Maret, who has played with Branford Marsalis and Jacky Terrasson; sax/bass clarinet player John Ellis, who's played with Jason Marsalis; trombone player Curtis Fowlkes, best known for his work with John Lurie's Lounge Lizards; and drummer Derek Philips, who has collaborated with jazz musicians Greg Osby and Joshua Redman.
A Down Beat magazine review of Right Now Move says it is "truly a band album, with Hunter often playing a sideman role." Hunter rarely solos on guitar — he says he likes to groove in tight-but-funky compositions that best play off the true ensemble nature of the group.
Hunter's mother fixed instruments at a guitar shop in Berkeley — a shop that was also the unofficial hangout of standout musicians from all over. He had a somewhat nomadic upbringing, traveling around with his mother in a school bus.
He was a proponent of the "hip hop" or "acid jazz" movement that hit the Bay Area in the mid-90s, mixing jazz with funk, hip-hop and rock. His first major gig came in 1991 with The Disposable Heroes of HipHopricy. But he really came into his own with the group T.J. Kirk, and followed up with several critically acclaimed solo CDs. Hunter credits musicians Jimmy Smith and Larry Young, both organ players, as huge influences on his style — Young in particular, because of the way Young would play bass lines with his left hand and chords and melodies with his right. In fact, many listeners often mistake Hunter's guitar for an organ because of the rich, vibrant sound and complex chords.
-- NPR
Sharon Jones & the Dapp Kings * SXSW 3.18.10
21/Mar/2010 Filed in: Funk/R&B/Soul
At SXSW 2010 in Austin, TX, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings rocked the house. They brought a 3-piece horn section — two saxophones and a trumpet — on one end of the stage, with a swaying guitar section on the other end. At one point Sharon Jones pulled a random man from the audience and sang to him as they danced together on stage. Later, she did a call and response with the crowd, getting everyone to sing along with her.
The group already had an impressive resume. Their first album together came out in 2002 — released, like their two albums to follow, on the independent label Daptone Records. Ever since, Jones and her dynamite nine-piece band haven't slowed down, playing world-class venues as well as almost every major U.S. music festival. At 53, Jones is as prominent and hard-working as ever, maintaining a relentless touring schedule and building a reputation for stupendous live shows.
The group's classic soul sound comes with an energetic, punchy edge. Just a few weeks after this SXSW performance, the band will release its rollicking fourth album, I Learned the Hard Way. Recorded entirely on a vintage 8-track at Daptone Studios, the album is a bold and winning follow-up to 2007's 100 Days, 100 Nights.
--NPR
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Phoenix / Cymbals Eat Guitars / The Album Leaf // 2009
11/Mar/2010 Filed in: Rock
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Bill Frisell, Brian Blade & Sam Yahel * May 2005 * Jazz Alley, Seattle, WA
07/Dec/2009 Filed in: Jazz
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BlindWineTrapper : freak folk on stage
08/Aug/2009 Filed in: Folk
This is a 2 hour mix of my favorite recent NPR "All Songs Considered" live concert podcasts. It features Blind Pilot, Iron & Wine, Blitzen Trapper, Feist, Bon Iver and The Decemberists. All but the Iron & Wine concert, which is from 2005, are recent concerts from the past few months. I love the freak folk renaissance of acoustic-based music with lots of moodiness, wit and beauty, and these bands are just about the best in that genre. Enjoy!
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Iron & Wine * Newport Folk Festival 2009
08/Aug/2009 Filed in: Folk
While Iron and Wine has evolved from its bedroom beginnings to full ensemble status, the warmth of Sam Beam's songs remain. (That is, if by warmth you mean bleak heartbreak, dark realizations and uncomfortable vulnerability.) Iron and Wine continues to wring inventive sounds and compelling emotions out of the American folk-music form, as it demonstrated at Folk Festival 50 on Saturday.
Iron and Wine's latest collection, Around the Well, compiles two discs' worth of B-sides, soundtrack and compilation tracks and previously unreleased goodies. Even though Beam's debut album, The Creek Drank the Cradle, was released only seven years ago, the new album is a reminder of just how far Iron and Wine has come. It's easy to hear the progression from self-recorded four-track folk to full-blown rock, especially in the unexpected likes of the Middle Eastern-inspired "Arms of a Thief."
Set List
"Such Great Heights"
"Woman King"
"Resurrection Fern"
"Sodom, South Georgia"
"Godless Brother in Love"
"Upward Over the Mountain"
"Naked as We Came"
"Peace Beneath the City"
"Love Songs and Some Verses"
"He Lays in the Reins"
"The Trapeze Swinger"
"Glad Mouth River"
"Flightless Bird, American Mouth"
"Sunset Soon Forgotten"
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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings * Newport Folk Festival 2009
08/Aug/2009 Filed in: Folk
It wasn't clear that Gillian Welch was even going to make it in time to the Newport Folk Festival's Fort Adams stage to perform her set. Her plane was five hours late, and she hit a traffic jam coming into Newport. Enter a police escort that found her car and escorted her all the way backstage, with roughly 30 seconds to spare. That wasn't long enough for Welch to put in her contact lenses, so she went without. She faced the blurry, 9,000-plus crowd — and the boats anchored in the distance — with her longtime performing partner David Rawlings beside her.
It's been years since Welch has put out a new album or performed frequently, but she's a fixture at the Newport Folk Festival no matter what. With Rawlings at her side Saturday, Welch treated fans to many of her classics — each drenched in the pair's trademark close harmonies — and threw in a reverb-drenched cover of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" for good measure.
Welch first surfaced on the pop-cultural radar with her 1996 debut, Revival, which transported fans back to the 1920s while maintaining a foot in the present. Producer T-Bone Burnett kept the album's focus on Welch and Rawlings. She followed that album with more full-length releases, as well as appearances on several soundtracks, such as Songcatcher and the chart-topping O, Brother, Where Art Thou? Both albums placed Welch and Rawlings squarely in the middle of the traditional American folk revival.
Set List
"I Want to Hear That Rock 'n' Roll"
"Elvis Presley Blues"
"My First Lover"
"No One Knows My Name"
"It's Too Easy"
"Miss Ohio"
"The Way It Will Be"
"Red Clay Halo"
"Dear Someone"
"White Rabbit"
"Orphan Girl"
"Revelator"
"I'll Fly Away"
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Fleet Foxes * Newport Folk Festival 2009
08/Aug/2009 Filed in: Folk
The Fleet Foxes' self-titled debut was one of 2008's most critically adored records. The Seattle band pairs layers of harmonized vocals — the sort of sound that could have emerged from the 1920s or the 1970s — with shuffling drums and finger-picked guitars. In keeping with the band's name, the record's song titles ("Meadowlarks," "Blue Ridge Mountains," "Ragged Wood") suggest a bucolic vision of nature, though lead singer Robin Pecknold's lyrics occasionally hint at violence ("And Michael you would fall / and turn the white snow red / as strawberries in summertime," from "White Winter Hymnal").
Fleet Foxes' members spent the majority of 2008 on the road before taking a break to work on a follow-up to their debut. The band's performances in 2009 have been fewer but higher in profile: It played Saturday Night Live in January and Coachella in April. Currently on tour, Fleet Foxes played the All Points West festival at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J., the day before taking the stage at Newport.
Set List
"Sun Giant"
"Sun It Rises"
"Drops in the River"
"English House"
"Bedouin Dress"
"White Winter Hymnal"
"Ragged Wood"
"Your Protector"
"Oliver James"
"Mykonos"
"Blue Ridge Mountains"
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Michael Jackson * 9.27.87 * Yokohama
27/Jun/2009 Filed in: Funk/R&B/Soul
Michael Jackson
1959-2009
Long live the King of Pop!
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The Dead * 5.16.09 set II * The Gorge
25/May/2009 Filed in: Grateful
Set two from a most excellent Dead show at the Gorge in eastern Washington on May 16, 2009:
Passenger > Hell in a Bucket, Althea, Eyes of the World > Drumz/Space (edited) > Days Between > Dark Star (Reprise) > One More Saturday Night, encore: Box of Rain
Set one from the Gorge 2009 concert is available right over here, a smokin' show from Cal Expo 1992 is here and here and other grateful goodies are on the Fundiblog. A decent review of the show here. Enjoy the goodies.
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The Dead * 5.16.09 set I * The Gorge
20/May/2009 Filed in: Grateful
The Gorge in Eastern Washington at sunset, just before The Dead took the stage. Photo by me.
My first Dead show in 13 years was an astounding success. My gawd. The venue, the weather, the posse I was rolling with, the reunions with old friends, the gathering of the tribe and, most surprisingly, the band and the music were all TOPS!!! My batteries are fully recharged and I'm a born-again Deadhead all over again. Thank you boys!
I went to the Gorge show thinking it would be my last time with Phil, Bobby, Billy and Mickey -- a bookend to my "career" of seeing live Dead -- but now, post-show, I'm wishing their were more concerts on the horizon. I think I'd hit the road and jump back on tour. A few west coast shows at least. That's not too much to ask, is it?
Enjoy this stellar, sunset-ty, surprising first set (Dark Star in the first set? Van Morrison cover? Dire Wolf???) The second set will be posted in a few days....
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Grateful Dead * 5.21.92 set II * Cal Expo
10/May/2009 Filed in: Grateful
As promised, here is the gorgeous set two from one of the best Dead shows I ever got to be a part of! (Set one is here.) This is the second in a series of live Dead sets released in anticipation of me seeing them play, for the first time post-Jerry, at the Gorge Amphitheater in eastern Washington in mid-May, along with the Doobie & Allman Bros!
Scarlet > Fire, Estimated > He's Gone > Drumz/Space > Watchtower > SOTM > Lovelight. E: Gloria!
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Grateful Dead * 5.21.92 set I * Cal Expo
26/Apr/2009 Filed in: Grateful
Set one from Cal Expo 5.21.92 -- one of the best all-around magical live Dead experiences I ever had -- wait until you hear set two!
Touch of Grey
Wang Dang
Row Jimmy
Me & My Uncle >
Maggie's
Bird Sond
A series of Dead shows released in anticipation of me seeing them play, for the first time post-Jerry, at the Gorge Amphitheater in eastern Washington, along with the Doobie & Allman Bros!
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Maceo Parker * 2007 * Germany
10/Apr/2009 Filed in: Funk/R&B/Soul
"This live set from the summer of 2007 finds famed ex-James Brown horn man Maceo Parker cutting loose with Germany’s incredible WDR Big Band. The concert shoots the intensity up several notches with Parliament-Funkadelic alumni Dennis Chambers (drums) and Rodney "Skeet" Curtis (bass) driving the energy to uncommonly soulful and sweaty peaks. The concept of playing hard funk with a brassy big band in tow is somewhat unusual, but the results smash all preconceptions. Parker’s dueling alto battle with Karolina Strassmayer on "To Be or Not to Be" and a rousing 17-minute version of the J.B.’s classic "Pass the Peas" are just a few highlights of this rollicking, electrifying set."
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Charlie Hunter * 6.1.09 * KPLU FM
20/Feb/2009 Filed in: Jazz
"Guitarist Charlie Hunter appeals to a lot of music fans on a lot of different levels. His amazing technique and improvisational skills have earned praise from straight-ahead jazz critics and fans. His willingness to experiment musically is looked upon with great favor by devotees of the avant-garde. And his ability to dig into a big, nasty groove and then run away with it has made him a favorite with jam-band audiences.
No matter what sort of music he plays, his amazing technique has been Hunter's calling card since he started recording in the mid-1990s. Armed with a seven-string guitar, he possesses the unique ability to sound like at least two guitarists at once, as he seems to play bass lines, melody lines, chords and improvisational passages at the same time.
However, as he tells KPLU's Nick Francis in this session, he feels that he's taken technique as far as he can. Hunter jokes that, at a certain point in the recent past, he felt that the only thing he could do to outdo himself on stage would be to set himself on fire. Since he was understandably hesitant to take such a drastic step, he began to re-think the music he was playing and the reasons he wanted to play music in the first place.
His conclusion, as you'll hear, was that he'd spent enough of his career in the service of technique — and that it was now time to serve the music. The solo guitar pieces he plays in this interview clearly demonstrate the fruits of Hunter's new path."
--88.5 KPLU FM
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