Marc Ribot – Map of a Blue City (CD) artist-gary-flink drawing on Petty's Florida roots

drawing on Petty's Florida roots to examine Southern identity with enough nuance to avoid both nostalgia and caricature

and something closer to meditation than dancefloor urgency

With scant time for overdubbing

This new edition of Talking Heads' classic 1984 live concert album features all the songs from the original LP

Marc Ribot – Map of a Blue City (CD) artist-gary-flink drawing on Petty's Florida rootsMarc Ribot has spent decades as one of New York's most restlessly inventive guitarists, lending his singular touch to Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and John Zorn while building a solo catalog that refuses easy categorization. His work moves freely between avant garde noise, Cuban son, klezmer, and American roots music, always with a bluesman's emotional directness underneath. This release finds that lifetime of wandering finally arriving somewhere