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The thing I hate most about Facebook as a host for our group is that the now thousands of posts are presented linearly - no feature to allow the user to group posts by topic (e.g., as one would in a discussion forum), to create a chain/thread of related posts, or to easily/quickly access posts … Continue reading 2017 ATCW Group Highlights

Many thanks to Andi Lechner for writing this post about one of Chris Whitley's signature pieces of gear.  Andi is a musician (singer-songwriter) based in Austria, where he fronts his band (Ghost and the Machine) playing resonator guitars. ======================== NOTE: This article should just provide information about the pick-ups that Chris used on his Nationals. … Continue reading The Barcus Berry 2522 Hi-Tek: Chris’ Guitar Pick-up of Choice

Here's a short playlist of songs that Chris performed as part of his full Radio Bremen set but that were possibly cut due to length constraints.  Enjoy!  

Lyrics: Well I knew you'd return to the other side And the day began, I woke again and died If you don't come around I'll know what it's worth How deep is the ground? As flat as the earth Well I can't refrain from talking to myself On a crowded plane, where nothing seems to … Continue reading As Flat as the Earth Playlist

Bliss to Breakdown is a previously unreleased track included on  Long Way Around: An Anthology.  That album, compiled by Danny Kadar, includes the only known version of this song: a demo recorded by David Kahne in 1992 at The Hit Factory in NYC and edited and mixed by Kadar in 2002.   Lyrics: I got … Continue reading Bliss to Breakdown: Chris and Hiroshi

Related Links Bootlegs here  In 2013, the group began uploading audio files of concerts to the Live Music Archive.  The Chris Whitley Collection now hosts over 50 downloadable bootlegs. Blog posts and other goodies here  The ATCW blog, a companion to the ATCW FB group, provides "articles" on various CW topics, hosts content (e.g., rare … Continue reading Quick Guide for New ATCW Group Members

Thanks to Stefan Thomas Lien for calling this one to my attention.  Turns out that the PoL on the Big Sky Country compilation CD is NOT the same as the one on the earlier Poison Girl CD.  Here are both tracks, plus a video of Chris playing PoL at Ohne Filter and another of my … Continue reading Pint of Lotion

                  Ray Quinn. owner of Martyrs' in Chicago, where Live was recorded over three nights (August 12 -14) in 1999, posted this to the ATCW group: When we made that recording, Chris asked me what he should call it.  I said: "Just call it Martyrs'."  A couple … Continue reading Live at Martyrs’ Media

Citing Perfect Day as one of her choices as "undeservedly obscure albums of 2000," Ann Powers (NY Times) described the album as ... ... sound[ing] like a secret conversation with the psychic succubus that keeps this innovative blues guitarist and singer on the run. Classics by songwriters from Bob Dylan to Howlin' Wolf melt like … Continue reading Perfect Day Media

Some of these things you just can't help taking personally, logic and reason be damned. No critic has ever been so objective as to fully avoid having a favorite, an artist who so fully encapsulates and expresses what that critic feels to be the zeitgeist, the tenor of the times, or at least, who so … Continue reading Jeff Miers, A generation’s lost voice (The Buffalo News, 2005-12-02)