Chris Whitley "Din Of Ecstasy" 2024-10-25 Joe Craven on percussion

Joe Craven on percussion

with airtight songwriting that plays up their strengths: sexy

they were one of the first bands of the early punk rock scenes

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Chris Whitley "Din Of Ecstasy" 2024-10-25 Joe Craven on percussionChris Whitley was an artist with his feet planted in two very different worlds. On one side was a guitarist songwriter who grew up with the Delta and Chicago blues of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf, with some Bob Dylan thrown in. But at the same time, he was hanging out with NYC Lower East Side avant gardeists like Arto Lindsey and Michael Beinhorn during his early 80s formative years. And it is precisely that tension between tradition