What can’t Los Angeles native Nels Cline accomplish? The guitar virtuoso’s first recorded performance with Wilco appeared on the SpongeBob SquarePants soundtrack, of all places. He’s even a lefty who plays a guitar version of John Coltrane’s Interstellar Space right-handed, employing a full rack of effects pedals and processors to distort and remake his spacey sound. Cline has played with the likes of Jeff Tweedy, Mike Watt, Geraldine Fibbers, Sonic Youth and Willie Nelson. His list of credits goes on for days, and his latest offering, the Nels Cline Singers’ Initiate (Cryptogramophone), ranks up with his best work. Initiate is a double-disc set cranked out in three days; the second disc consists of 2009 live performances from Café du Nord in San Francisco featuring drummer Scott Amendola and bassist Devin Hoff. And the best part? You can download the funky, Miles Davis-infused “Floored” below.
“Floored” (download):
https://magnetmagazine.com/audio/Floored.mp3
