The prodigal doc returns

Eugene Chadbourne is interviewed and profiled by FFWD.

When you decide to check out one of Eugene Chadbourne’s gigs with the Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir this week, it could be for one of many reasons. Perhaps you know him as the inventor of the electric rake, a cacophonous mash-up of guitar pick-ups and garden tools. Or maybe you stumbled upon one of his dozens of albums, which are hard to miss with titles like 69th Sinfunny and Jesse Helms Busted for Pornography. And if you’re into local trivia, you may recall that he spent part of his life living in this very city as a Vietnam-era draft dodger and that he rose like a shot through the ranks of the Calgary Herald.