Marc Ribot has released twenty-five albums under his own name over a forty-year career, exploring everything from the pioneering jazz of Albert Ayler to the Cuban son of Arsenio Rodr�guez. Rolling Stone points out that "Ribot helped Tom Waits refine a new, weird Americana on 1985's Rain Dogs, and since then he's become the go-to guitar guy for all kinds of roots-music adventurers: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Elvis Costello, John Mellencamp." Additional recording credits include Neko Case, Diana Krall, Elton John/Leon Russell's The Union, Solomon Burke, John Lurie's Lounge Lizards, Marianne Faithfull, Joe Henry, Allen Toussaint, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Caetano Veloso, Allen Ginsberg, Madeleine Peyroux, Norah Jones, the Black Keys, and many others. Ribot works regularly with GRAMMY Award-winning producer T Bone Burnett and New York composer John Zorn. He has also performed on numerous film scores such as Walk the Line, The Kids Are All Right, and The Departed.
Unstrung . . . delivers everything one could hope from a guitar
hero/activist/cultural critic: that is, complex culture and musical
theory broken down into tasteful riffs, absurdist tales of our
times, and plenty of sparse, unpretentious prose as well-honed as
any major American writer.-- "BOMB Magazine"
Unstrung is proof that the iconoclast Marc Ribot has a way with
words commensurate with his guitar virtuosity . . . Ribot's is the
voice of an outsider breaking through. It's the voice of an
original.-- "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
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