John Lee Hooker, Rhys Chatham, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Steve Reich, Muddy Waters,
La Monte Young, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Walter, Tony Conrad, Bob Dylan, John Coltrane, Mel Brooks, Howlin' Wolf, Irving Berlin, Piobaireachd, Bo Diddley, Elvin Jones, Otha Turner, Miles Davis, Albert King, Cole Porter, Chick Webb, The Staples Singers, Al Jackson, Joni Mitchell, James Brown, Al Jolson, Igor Stravinsky, Hank Williams, Thelonious Monk, Judy Garland, Jimi Hendrix, The Ramones, Joseph 'Zig' Modeliste, Robert Johnson, to name a few.
Jonathan Kane is a Downtown NYC legend -- as co-founder of the no-wave behemoth Swans, and the rhythmic thunder behind the massed-guitar armies of Rhys Chatham and the rock excursions of La Monte Young -- and one of the hardest-hitting drummers on the planet. With his solo work, Kane summons Swans' concussive wallop, Chatham's dense guitar strata, and the perpetual propulsion of 70s krautrockers Neu, then steers it all head-on into... the blues. Make no mistake about it: Kane is a bluesman, and beneath the high-decible bombast, he's powering guitar-driven minimalism into the blues, and the blues into guitar-driven harmonic maximalism. So roll with Jonathan Kane down his Highway 61 of the mind -- it's the shape of blues to come.
WATCH JONATHAN KANE'S FEBRUARY LIVE AT WFMU STUDIO!!
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jonathan, rikki and larry loved your music,(as always!) we will try to catch a show in the city, check out the trapps, up snd coming...and our 'my space' we will try to keep in touch through there...love you!!!!
thanks for joining my circle. Love your sound, and I'm delighted to have you as a friend,
Marc
p.s. You might want to check out my new spoken word cd, "Night Work" recorded live at Issue. It's on Philistine Records and available at cdbaby. comdiscark. com and apple. com/itunes.
Jonathan, Great chatting the other day. Radio feature with excerpts from our conversation airing Friday at 3 p.m. on WZBC - 90.3 in Boston. Live webstream at www.wzbc.org. See you Saturday at Church in Boston!
