bluegrass – acoustic – Alan Lomax – Jack White is fan

In 2009, AB organised a tribute to the legendary ethno-musicologist Alan Lomax. He often worked in the Appalachians, the mountain rage on America's Eastern coast where immigrants killed their time making folk music from their homeland and created a unique sound in doing so. As a part of that tribute, America's Chatham County Line dropped by for a concert during the Feeërieën. With the four of them around 1 microphone; it was to be an intimate but also legendary evening. A live album is to be released this summer and that's why they'll be in Europe again this fall. Date: Wednesday 2 November in the ABClub.

Chatham County Line hail from Raleigh, North Carolina and deal in bluegrass. Their oeuvre is now recorded on six albums, of which the majority were released via the American Yep Roc label. Did we say Bluegrass? So there's plenty of harmonious polyphony and acoustic instrumentation? Indeed. Also impressive voices, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar and contrabass, all finely focused around a single microphone. By the way, live (and with verve), this quartet dares to dig into the legacy of Bob Dylan or country legend Hank Williams. Alan Lomax would be proud of them! During the recording of a Jools Holland, where he was appearing with The Raconteurs, Jack White emitted a ‘What The Fuck!’ and immediately became a fan for life.