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Nels Cline on Julian Lage Duo


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From the Phoenix New Times:

Guitarists Julian Lage and Nels Cline lead wildly different musical lives. Lage operates primarily in a jazz realm, having collaborated with Jim Hall, Gary Burton, and Eric Harland. Yet, he’s also worked with mandolin master David Grisman and fiddle and bluegrass virtuoso Mark O’Conner, among others. Cline, when not fronting The Nels Cline Singers, is perhaps best known as a guitarist in Wilco. Together, however, the pair journey down an entirely esoteric musical path that meanders through rock, folk, country, and 1970s-esque soundtracks, all with crafty sensibility, improvisation, and dexterity.


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