RTP-area local music and culture

[paok <bluefreaky AT earthlink.net>]

Because you're too much of an ignoramus to do it yourself?

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>---- Woody <deadceo AT gmail.com> wrote: 
>> hey folks-
>> 
>> I'll be performing solo on my "electro-acoustic banjo" this Saturday
>> at Nightlight with a bunch of bands (also in Asheville Thursday for
>> other NC folks).  Info and a recent review from Chicago Reader
>> below...
>> 
>> -Woody
>> 
>> 
>> May 30, 10P @ Nightlight
>> 405 1/2 W. Rosemary St., Chapel Hill, NC
>> * Uncle Woody Sullender
>> * w/ Actual Persons Living or Dead, Schooner, & Impossible Arms
>> 
>> 
>> UNCLE WOODY SULLENDER
>> http://deadceo.com/unclewoody
>> Not too many musicians have redefined what the banjo is about the way
>> Woody Sullender has. On his latest and best album, Live at Barkenhoff
>> (K=FCnstlerh=E4user Worpswede/Dead CEO), the former Chicagoan evokes
>> stringed instruments as disparate as John Fahey-style acoustic guitar
>> and the Chinese lute called the pipa, all the while continuing to
>> purge his playing of any traces of idiom=97a tough task, given that few
>> sounds bring to mind a specific genre as inevitably as banjo evokes
>> bluegrass. He subtly augments his rangy extended improvisations with
>> computer noises=97usually either soothing drones or screechy violinlike
>> sawing=97but the focus always stays on his playing.
>> Here and there Sullender uses unusual techniques=97harmonics, string
>> rubbing, percussive clattering=97but most of the time he sticks with
>> conventional plucking. Though he retains the instrument=92s dry, brittle
>> snap, he upends its familiar ambling flow, using tightly coiled, fast-
>> flying tangles of notes and sprawling, meditative arpeggios. Some of
>> the pieces use prewritten motifs and some are totally improvised, but
>> each progresses with a clear logic, rising and falling, accelerating
>> and decelerating, and thickening and dispersing as though telling a
>> story.
>>  =97Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader
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