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A conversation with Marc Ribot. Listen to program
I’ve been in the studio for about ten days now. Down in the tunnel, away from the daylight, in a 4-walled womb trying to make something good. It is exhilarating and exhausting. The further down you go, the more you find that you must go even further down. The closer you get to music, the wider its mystery’s wingspan opens. There is so much room to get lost.
My interview with Marc Ribot is especially timely and inspiring. I simply shake my head in admiration. Marc is a true guitar god, listed in the liner notes of all my favorite records. He is the guitar player everyone wishes were on their record, and the guy the guitar player references if he isn’t Marc. He has traveled the world performing on his own and with everyone from John Zorn and Tom Waits to Elvis Costello and Iggy Pop. But Marc is even more than that. Marc is a singular artist with a voice that is wholly his own. Yes, he has brilliant instincts and has worked many years with his instrument in his hands, but what strikes me most is his insistence on making music in the uncharted water between craft and chaos. Which is where the deeper magic lives. I’ll take his words with me as a lantern in the dark as I try my damnedest to venture there myself.
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