Have Guitar Will Travel - Marc Ribot

Probably the first time I encountered Marc Ribot’s guitar work was when I bought Tom Wait’s Rain Dogs, and the second time when he appeared on the Live In Tokyo - Big Heart album of The Lounge Lizards.
To me that put him clearly in the ‘not your usual gitarist’ section which made him only more interesting.

Over the years I noticed Ribot steering towards ‘avant garde’ jazz - often playing with John Zorn - resulting in rather unsettling listening experiences, not really my cup of tea.
But somehow I did see his name popping up on all kinds of records and slowly began to realize that Ribot is a instrumental force to be reckoned with.
Besides Waits, the Lizards, and Zorn, Ribot’s guitar work can also be found on tracks by Elvis Costello, Solomon Burke, Brother Jack McDuff, Marianne Faithfull, Medeski Martin & Wood, Caetano Veloso and Hal Willner, among many others.
Whether he paying tribute to Frantz Casseus, helping out his old Lizard buddy John Lurie, or going wild with his Ceramic Dog band, Ribot remains unique and surprisingly enough until now no attempt has been made to showcase this talent…
Therefore we hope you will appreciate this carefully selected overview.
This 2 CD set includes the following artists & bands:
The Lounge Lizards, Tom Waits, Tanita Tikaram, Caetano Veloso , Gavin Friday feat. The Man Seezer, Syd Straw, David Sanborn, Evan Lurie, The Jazz Passengers, Rob Wasserman feat. Elvis Costello, Arto Lindsay, Sam Phillips, Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos, Marvin Pontiac, Bill Ware, Sheryl Crow, Susana Baca, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Ceramic Dog, Marianne Faithfull, Elton John & Leon Russell, John Zorn, Imelda May, Big Lazy, Mdou Moctar, and Tuomo & Markus.