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Saints

Saints

By Marc Ribot

Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: 1. Saints 2. Book of Heads #13 3. I?m Getting Sentimental Over You 4. Empty 5. Happiness Is a Warm Gun 6. I?m Confessin? 7. Go Down Moses 8. St. James Infirmary 9. Somewhere 10. Holy Holy Holy 11. It Could Have Been Very, Very Beautiful 12. Witches and Devils

Marc Ribot: Saints

by David Adler
December 1, 2001

Perhaps the most interesting facet of Marc Ribot's solo guitar exposition is its focus on Albert Ayler. Three of the four compositions from Ayler's 1964 recording Witches and Devils appear on the disc, beginning with “Saints," on which Ribot emulates Ayler's austere saxophone cries on guitar or a guitar-like instrument (it's hard to tell). The tone ...