piercethevale
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Driving east out of Reno in 1991, radio on, about to drive across the Northern Nevada desert for the first time in my life and one of the most hauntingly beautiful tunes I'd ever heard comes on. I pulled off the highway and found a pay phone. {this was before cell phones... and pay phone were still among things to be found in this world} I called the radio station and asked whom it was they had playing on the air {this was also when radio still had dj's and you could call radio stations and make requests, ask questions or just to give the dj some praise or grief... that is to say before modern "progress" changed all that...yeah. "progress".} I was told it was a fellow by the name of Chris Whitley and he was playing his rendition of "Phone Call From Leavenworth. I turned the car around and drove back the 3 or 3 miles to Reno, found a record store {this was befor... awwww forget about it} and bought a cassette tape and then headed east again to Wyoming to see that State, visit a friend and tour the Rocky Mts. for a few weeks. It was my first time seeing the Rocky Mts, other than in Canada or crossing them through southern New Mexico 19 years earlier I had Chris along for the ride the entire time.
wiki:
Whitley was born in Houston, Texas, in 1960, and learned to play guitar when he was fifteen. His father was an art director and his mother was a sculptor. During his youth he lived in Dallas, Texas, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Mexico and Vermont. His parents "grew up on race radio in the South" and their musical tastes—including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix—influenced Whitley. During the early 1980s when He was in his very early 20's, Whitley was heard busking on the streets of New York City and He was given a plane ticket to Ghent, Belgium in 1983, and lived there for four years, recording several albums and playing with the bands Kuruki, 2 Belgen, Nacht Und Nebel, Alan Fawn, and A Noh Rodeo.
Chris died in 2005 from lung cancer.
Here a cut from one of those recordings.... I find it to be infectious.
Chris Whitley ~ "All Beauty Taken From You In This Life Shall Remain Forever"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ny57ec3ixQ
wiki:
Whitley was born in Houston, Texas, in 1960, and learned to play guitar when he was fifteen. His father was an art director and his mother was a sculptor. During his youth he lived in Dallas, Texas, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Mexico and Vermont. His parents "grew up on race radio in the South" and their musical tastes—including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix—influenced Whitley. During the early 1980s when He was in his very early 20's, Whitley was heard busking on the streets of New York City and He was given a plane ticket to Ghent, Belgium in 1983, and lived there for four years, recording several albums and playing with the bands Kuruki, 2 Belgen, Nacht Und Nebel, Alan Fawn, and A Noh Rodeo.
Chris died in 2005 from lung cancer.
Here a cut from one of those recordings.... I find it to be infectious.
Chris Whitley ~ "All Beauty Taken From You In This Life Shall Remain Forever"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ny57ec3ixQ
The Universal Flow .. Perfect/Pure/Ecstatic/KNOWING ... How could it be less than 
