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Nels Cline in Black Cat
Courtesy of Matt Merewitz | Posted on April 19, 2010
Where
Black Cat
When
Thu, July 8, 2010
9 pm
At Door
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Musicians
Scott Amendola
drumsNels Cline
guitar, electricAbout
The Nels Cline Singers are a trio of avant-assassins led by guitarist Nels Cline. Formed in 2001, The Singers have released 4 albums on Cryptogramophone that combine wide-ranging compositions with group improvisations, and run the gamut between delicate lyricism, and skull-crunching flights of fancy. Since joining the critically acclaimed rock group Wilco in 2004, Nels Cline has emerged as one of the most respected and unclassifiable musicians active today - memorably described by Jazz Times as "the world's most dangerous guitarist" and by New York Times writer/bestselling author David Carr (Night of the Gun) as "one of the best guitarists in any genre." Ironically, Cline formed the Singers at the urging of versatile drummer Scott Amendola, a New Jersey-born Black Sabbath and Ornette Coleman acolyte who had gained prominence in San Francisco's' heady, dot-com era music scene of the early 90s though his collaborations with guitarist Charlie Hunter and saxophonist Philip Greenlief...