Looking for something else today, I stumbled across Danny Kadar's 2015 ATCW group post, commemorating what would have been Chris's 55th birthday and sharing a SoundCloud playlist that contained a demo version of "Clear Blue Sky". This 1996 version of CBS was recorded at Blue Moon Racing, the Vermont property owned by Chris's dad and … Continue reading A Few Iterations of Clear Blue Sky
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at the Rob Wasserman Trios Event 1994-03-26
In March 1994, Chris appeared at the Rex Foundation benefit concert at the Beacon Theater, with a busload of fellow musicians:Rob WassermanBruce HornsbyVictoria WilliamsChris WhitleyBob WeirJohn Wesley HardingMatt HaimovitzJimmy ScottDavid SanbornGeorge RessiliMichael BracklerLou Reed Although mostly unrelated to our man Chris, the Rex Foundation has an interesting story, as captured in these sentences from the … Continue reading at the Rob Wasserman Trios Event 1994-03-26
Radio Show at River Music Hall (Haverhill/Greater Boston) 1997-03-19
This show includes a rare performance of Some Candy Talkin’:
Din Band at The Middle East (Cambridge, MA) 1995-06-15
So good, so raw, so explosive. Forever Young!
Jeff Lang’s Post to the Dust Forum upon Learning of Chris’s Death
Just ran across this while rummaging down a rabbit hole. No better tribute from one friend to another, from one musician to another, from a fan to his idol .... Chris first came out to Australia in 1993. I went to his Tuesday night show at The Basement in Sydney on the recommendation of a … Continue reading Jeff Lang’s Post to the Dust Forum upon Learning of Chris’s Death
Weightless
"He ventured new sonic territory with ... the romantic/existential yearning of "Weightless" (Lonelier than God/Fallen from above/ Weightless as a child/Hopeless to your love)." [from the LWA CD liner] The version on Terra Incognita: The remix on Long Way Around:
Soft Dangerous Shores Media
Whitley recorded Soft Dangerous Shores with bassist Heiko Schramm and drummer Matthias Macht, the supple German rhythm team on board for Hotel Vast Horizon (Messenger, 2003). Malcolm Burn was at the helm, producing and engineering the record in his Kingston, N.Y., studio. Burn's sepia-toned keyboards were also the source of the album's hovering atmospherics. … Continue reading Soft Dangerous Shores Media
Look What Love Has Done Playlist
One of the ATCW group's favorites, Look What Love Has Done, as Manual Destanque put it, "... jerks a tear from my eye every time. The first time I listened to it I was thrilled, love that song, love the story and the images and metaphors... And then there's the last bit of the song … Continue reading Look What Love Has Done Playlist
The Odd Couple: Chris and Warren Zevon
It seems an odd pairing: Chris, a self-taught guitarist whose visceral lyrics were influenced by desert landscapes and an appreciation of French surrealist poets; Warren, a piano man (briefly mentored by Igor Stravinsky) whose lyrics often described viscera and whom Rolling Stone labeled "rock's macabre jester." Chris, the offspring of a Madison Avenue ad executive … Continue reading The Odd Couple: Chris and Warren Zevon
“Home Is Where You Get Across”
Danny Kadar has shared the first known recording of Home (New Orleans 1991): Another 1991 recording of Home (courtesy of Danny Kadar): Here's Chris playing Home with Bob Wasserman and Les Claypool on Wasserman's CD Trios (1994): Chris plays LWTL and then Home (with Rob and Les) at the Trios concert … Continue reading “Home Is Where You Get Across”
All Things Chris Whitley 