RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <hepstyle AT gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 6:44 PM, paok <bluefreaky AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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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