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MARC RIBOT revives the art of the protest song

27. September 2018

MARC RIBOT erweckt die Kunst des Protestsongs zu neuem Leben

The US guitarist Marc Ribot loves provocation. On his new albums "YRU Still Here" with his band Ceramic Dog and "Songs Of Resistance 1942-2018" with an illustrious crowd of guests he directed his anger against political grievances in the USA. Marc Ribot is an edgy guy. At the end of the eighties he played in the jazz bands The Lounge Lizards and Jazz Passengers and lent his woodcutter guitar playing to Tom Waits and Elvis Costello. His clash of punk and jazz resembled crashes without survivors. Patience is not one of his virtues. None of his own bands have lasted for more than two albums. No matter whether it was the Rootless Cosmopolitans, Shrek or the extremely successful Cubanos Postizos or whether he commuted between extremes like John Zorn or Robert Plant, Ribot was always on his mind at the next construction site.