The best description one can find to encapsulate Ribot's musical career is carefree nomad. The cast list of artists he has performed with is both immense and diverse. Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Robert Plant and Alison Kraus, T Bone Burnett and many more have all benefited from his talented guitar input. In addition he has recently contributed to the Cuban rooted music of Arsenio Rodriguez, and ...
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I love the guitar stylings of Mr. Ribot, and this track comes from a fantastic tribute album put out on John Zorn's Tzadik label. The album is called "Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach" If you see this album, buy it. It is probably one of the most accessible of the albums to come out of the whole "Knitting Factory" scene of Avante Garde Jazz, especially of John Zorn, who I think sometimes p...
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It's always a hard question for me. In my youth I would say classic rock cliches like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Slash, Brian May, Dave Gilmour, ect. After that phase passed I turned to eccentric shredders like Steve Vai, Satriani, Buckethead, Bumblefoot, etc. Now that phase has passed and my musical ear wanders elsewhere. The person of my latest affinity would be Marc Ribot - Marc Ribot, just l...
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The best description one can find to encapsulate Ribot's musical career is carefree nomad. The cast list of artists he has performed with is both immense and diverse. Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Robert Plant and Alison Kraus, T Bone Burnett and many more have all benefited from his talented guitar input. In addition he has recently contributed to the Cuban rooted music of Arsenio Rodriguez, and ...
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WARNING: This song could seriously damage your pre-conceived ideas of how middle aged musicians should be behaving.Remember...1.He's in his mid 50's.2.He's a free jazz guitarist.3.He's signed to a Jazz record label (Pi).4.He's well known for collaborations with Tom Waits and Elvis Costello.So what does he go and do? Completely de-construct one of the most powerful and compelling Rock songs of t...
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I love the guitar stylings of Mr. Ribot, and this track comes from a fantastic tribute album put out on John Zorn's Tzadik label. The album is called "Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach" If you see this album, buy it. It is probably one of the most accessible of the albums to come out of the whole "Knitting Factory" scene of Avante Garde Jazz, especially of John Zorn, who I think sometimes p...
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Go on ask me who my favorite (living) guitarist is.....come on, come on.....just ask. Feel like I've been extremely consistent with my answer for the last 10 years - Marc Ribot, hands down! And this May he celebrates his 55th birthday with a career retrospective (May 9-16) where he'll perform with a different project each night in different venues across the great city of New York. Get the f...
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| 2 Party Intellectuals |
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| 3 Todo el Mundo Es Kitsch |
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| 4 When We Were Young And We Were Freaks |
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| 5 Digital Handshake |
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