Guitar Composer Rhys Chatham Picks Locals for New Album

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Another national album release with local connections is coming in September, when Nonesuch, an imprint of Warner, issues a live recording of avant-garde guitar-army composer Rhys Chatham's A Crimson Grail.

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The album was recorded last August in New York at an outdoor music festival with 200 electric guitarists, 16 bassists, and one drummer. One of the guitarists was Knoxville's Ian Henderson; one of the bassists was Cain Blanchard of local record label Laboratory Standard Recordings.

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