NEM#7. Gary Lucas on Zen and the Avant Ghetto

Gary is a guitar virtuoso who's put out more than 30 albums, typically by writing guitar instrumentals that then get a melody and words added by a singer/songwriter, the most famous of these being Jeff Buckley in the early '90s, but also Joan Osborne and many others. Gary got his start on Captain Beefheart's final albums in the early '80s, and gained from him an intuitive  Continue Reading …

NEM#7 Bonus: More Conversation and Tunes with Gary Lucas

Gary had a couple of lengthy digressions that didn't make the cut into the episode proper, like where he talked more about his collaboration with Bruno Galindo, The Infra-Realist Session (2009); this recording includes the song "Cada Resto del Naufragio." On top of this, I ended up speaking to him two weeks after the original recording to ask a few more questions, and while  Continue Reading …