5 Guitar Players I Love
Jim Jarmusch
Here at EarthQuaker Devices, we are proud fans of our roster of artists and music makers. But artists and music makers are music fans too. So we've asked several of our artists to share a list of five (5) guitarists they are fans of and why these players are special to them. Wata, guitarist of Boris, kicked us off with her interesting and eclectic list. You can check it out HERE.
Next up is filmmaker, musician, and Northeast Ohio native son, Jim Jarmusch. Thanks, Jim!
Pat Place
The music that comes out of Pat Place's guitar is like a very rare, exotically colored, and patterned snake. It slinks low to the ground, and if approached too closely, it will definitely bite.
Link Wray
Without Link Wray, we wouldn't exist. Coolness wouldn't exist. Reckless electric guitar music wouldn't exist. Without Link Wray, the universe wouldn't exist.
Eddie Hazel
It turns out that Eddie Hazel only needed to record that one gorgeous 10-minute track ("Maggot Brain") to forever cement his status as one of the most ecstatically melodic and emotionally nuanced electric guitar players of all time.
Sonny Sharrock
A highly original electric 'jazz' guitarist, at times, it seems like Sharrock thinks his guitar is a saxophone. But saxophones can't feedback like that! For me, his 1986 recording, simply titled GUITAR, and produced by Bill Laswell, says it all.
Loren Connors
Mysterious and delicate, Loren Connors' improvised guitar music ripples and fades, flickers and liquifies, like distant stars in the night sky, like dust moats illuminated by the light from a window…
-Jim Jarmusch
