CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Marc Ribot in conversation with Elliot Sharp

Master guitarist Marc Ribot discusses his new book with Elliot Sharp.
Mark Ribot celebrates his new book
"Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist"
published by Akashic Books
Throughout his genre-defying career as one of the most innovative musicians of our time, iconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot has consistently defied expectation at every turn. Here, in his first collection of writing, we see that same uncompromising sensibility at work as he playfully interrogates our assumptions about music, life, and death. Through essays, short stories, and the occasional unfilmable film “mistreatment” that showcase the sheer range of his voice, Unstrung captures an artist whose versatility on the page rivals his dexterity onstage.
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 Rodríguez. 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 composed and performed on numerous film scores such as Walk the Line, The Kids Are All Right, and The Departed. UNSTRUNG is his latest work.
ELLIOTT SHARP is a contemporary classical composer, multi-instrumentalist, and performer. A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from contemporary classical, avant-garde, free improvisation, jazz, experimental, and orchestral music to noise, no wave, and electronic music. He is the author of the book IrRational Music published by Terra Nova Press.
To learn more about "Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist" click this link:
citylights.com/new-nonfiction...
This event was originally broadcast in Zoom on Saturday, August 7, 2021 and was hosted by Peter Maravelis of City Lights.
Sponsored by the City Lights Foundation.

[@crieverytim]

Fantastic. Thanks for doing

[@Kawartha65]

Thanks so much for posting. Huge Ribot fan … excited about the book. The read snippet reminds me of Marc’s guitar playing : fragments of the beautiful and the ugly colliding within in the undeniable Real.

[@mikaelblomqvist7212]

Thanks for this!!! Bought the books right now. These artists has been a soundtrack my whole life!

[@underyourskins]

A very good conversation with two great artists..