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Gary Lucas One-Take - "Q & A"

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Former Captain Beefheart and Jeff Buckley guitarist performs a new instrumental piece entitled “Q & A" on Dusty Wright's One-Takes.

About Gary Lucas

A world class guitar hero, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, an international recording artist with over a dozen acclaimed solo albums to date, and a soundtrack composer for film and television, Gary Lucas is on the move in 2006.

Dubbed the “legendary leftfield guitarist" by The Guardian, “Guitarist of 1000 Ideas" by The New York Times, “a true axe God" by Melody Maker and “the thinking man's guitar hero" by The New Yorker, the British world music magazine fRoots recently hailed Gary Lucas as “without question, the most innovative and challenging guitarist playing today." Rolling Stone's David Fricke just wrote: “Gary Lucas is one of the best and most original guitarists in America" in a rave review of Gary's new album Coming Clean. Gary was also cited recently by the editors of DownBeat Magazine as one of their “Hot 66 6-Stringers" alongside John McLaughlin, Richard Thompson, B.B King, Pat Metheny, and other greats.

Gary Lucas tours the world relentlessly both solo and with several different ensembles, including his longtime band Gods and Monsters, whose ranks once included the late great singer Jeff Buckley. Gary co-wrote two of Jeff Buckley's most famous hits, “Grace" and “Mojo Pin," from his million-selling album “Grace" (which MOJO just named as their #1 Modern Classic Album in their March 2006 issue). Gary and Jeff's early collaborations can also be heard on the recent Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas album Songs To No One, which charted internationally with worldwide sales approaching 100,000. Other notable recent Gary Lucas releases include The Edge of Heaven, an album of Gary's lush arrangements of classic Chinese pop tunes from the 1930s, which received international raves everywhere from Rolling Stone to the Wall Street Journal to the Hong Kong Music Weekly. Gary also recently released a compilation of the best of his early band and solo work entitled Operators Are Standing By, which garnered a 4-star Mojo review which stated: “This album confirms Gary Lucas as THE psychedelic guitarist for the post-modern set." [ Read complete biography ].


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