Nels Cline/Wally Shoup/Chris Corsano

Nels Cline/Wally Shoup/Chris Corsano: Immolation/Immersion

by John Kelman
November 21, 2005

Guitarist Nels Cline seems to lead at least a double life. On one hand he's been a significant force on the edgy Left Coast music scene for the past thirty years, collaborating on fearless explorations into the unknowns of free improvisation and left-of-center composition with artists like Vinny Golia, Gregg Bendian, and Steuart Liebig--not to mention his own Nels Cline Singers. Conversely, he also plays guitar with alt-rockers Wilco. But the line between these seemingly diametrically opposed interests is far ...