at Blue Moon Racing where Dirt Floor was recorded (from Jerry Whitley)
“Seeing somebody like Chris Whitley sitting in a tool shed in the back of his father’s house, just possessed, and you realize that you are in the presence of nature at its purest, you’re in the presence of the divine.”
~ Craig Street, as quoted in Producing Hit Records by DJ Farinella
Articles
Acoustic Guitar (September 1998)
A jagged presentation of jagged subject matter
After big debut, Chris Whitley tries to `rebuild’ with new album `Dirt Floor’
Bigger label isn’t always better
Bluesy blooey Whitley’s acoustic cornicopia proves too much for his amplifiers – twice
Chris Whitley abiding by “the law” again
Chris Whitley bleeds the delta
Chris Whitley chooses a circuitous musical path
Chris Whitley: Dirt Floor (Messenger)
Chris Whitley: Dirt Floor (David Bowman/Salon)
Chris Whitley’s “Dirt” takes root
Chris Whitley’s music is all over the place, just like he wants
Chris Whitley’s scrapyard lullabies
Austin American-Statesman review
Folk, blues singer taps into his core
Individualist defies categories to go his own way
Out of the din: up-and-comer turned has-been is back in full poetic force
Whitley evokes magic of great bluesmen
Whitley follows the indie road
Whitley is moving in stark setting (Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room)
Whitley shows versatile style (Martyr’s March 1999)
Whitley sings the blues with emotion, intensity
Whitley strips his sound bare on ‘Floor’
Whitley sweeps bad times away with ‘Dirt Floor’
Whitley’s gift a secret that should be told (Peabody’s DownUnder)
Craig Street re recording Dirt Floor
Bootlegs and Other Audio
1998 gigs including Radio Bremen “Moments”
Rolling Stone interview 1998-04-06 at Martyr’s
J’Open Mike (NYC) 1998-03-10:
Austin Convention Center (Pre-show) 1998-03-21:
KFOG Pull the Plug (San Francisco) 1998-03-25:
Hagstrom Musikk (Bergen, Norway) 1998-04-28 – Chris plays several tracks from Din and TI, perhaps because he seldom appeared in Norway:
Acoustic Cafe 1998-06-02:
Live at Blockbuster (Nashville, TN) 1998-08-02
Amoeba’s (San Francisco, CA) 1998-08-22:
WPLR (New Haven, CT) 1999-03-12:
KMTT (Seattle, WA) 1999-04-14:
KBAC (Santa Fe, NM) 1999-04-26
Martyr’s Pre-show 1999-08-13 WXRT
Videos
Craig Street discusses the recording of Dirt Floor:
Scrapyard Lullaby b/w:
Scrapyard Lullaby:
Dirt Floor:
Wild Country:
at CBGB’s for Reverb:
Chris plays Firefighter on Gabereau (Canadian show) April 1999:
Video playlist: CBGB 1998 (professional video)
Video playlist: Quasimodo’s 1999-02-05
Video playlist: Rosebud 1998-04-14
Here’s an early (1993) version of Altitude sounding very much like a DIN song. Trimmed from a video uploaded by WillSalas CymbalMaker [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy5rXUj09o0]:
And, thanks to Hiroshi Suda, you can listen to the audio only here:
Photos
Katie- I really value the articles you posted. Thank you
Jerry Whitley 7/13/16
Posted by jerry whitley | July 13, 2016, 9:38 pmThanks, Jerry. Just doing my part to preserve the record of Chris’s awesomeness, lest we forget.
Posted by Katie | July 14, 2016, 10:54 amKatie, Thought you’d approve of this. Bjorn [image1.PNG] Sent from my iPhone
Posted by Bjorn Johnson | June 20, 2016, 10:22 pmDon’t know, Bjorn – no image appears in your comment!
Posted by Katie | June 21, 2016, 7:35 am