Eugene Chadbourne

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Eugene Chadbourne in concert with Joe Sachse at Club W71 , 2019
EC as "Me & Paul" with Paul Lovens in Club W71, 2003

Eugene Alexander Chadbourne (born January 4, 1954 in Mount Vernon ) is an American guitarist , banjo player and composer . He is also a music journalist and writes for both the All Music Guide and Maximum RocknRoll .

Chadbourne, who grew up in Colorado and Alberta, is a self-taught musician. He initially played rock and roll guitar but was soon repelled by the formal conventions of the genre. He dealt with other styles, from blues to country and bluegrass to free jazz and noise - in order to ultimately bring together these different influences in a unique personal style. He was also influenced by style experiments by Captain Beefheart and the Mothers of Invention .

Chadbourne first worked with Carla Bley , John Zorn , Frank Lowe and Toshinori Kondō in the late 1970s . He played in the early 1980s in the group Shockabilly with Mark Kramer (bass / organ) and David Licht (drums), with whom he released four albums. He continued to perform in very different contexts, for example with Billy Bang , Shelley Hirsch , Elliott Sharp and Fred Frith , but also with improvisers such as Derek Bailey , Jon Rose , Han Bennink , Tristan Honsinger , David Moss and Paul Lovens . He also played with Camper Van Beethoven , Andrea Centazzo , Jello Biafra , Turbonegro , They Might Be Giants , Sun City Girls , Walter Daniels , Zu , Uli Böttcher and Jimmy Carl Black .

Chadbourne lives in Greensboro, North Carolina . He has also developed his own instruments such as the "electric rake", whereby a pickup is attached to an ordinary garden rake, and uses balloons as string dampers.

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SURNAME Chadbourne, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chadbourne, Eugene Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American guitarist, banjo player and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Mount Vernon