Eugene Chadbourne

Eugene Chadbourne is an American improvisor, guitarist and banjoist. Highly eclectic and unconventional, Chadbournes most formative influence is free jazz. He has also been a reviewer for Allmusic and a contributor to Maximum RocknRoll.

Chadbourne was born in Mount Vernon, New York. He started out playing rock and roll guitar, but quickly grew bored with the forms conventions. He then studied other genres, including blues, country, bluegrass, free jazz, and noiseeventually synthesizing all those heterogeneous influences into a unique style of his own. He was also influenced early on by the experimental stylings of Captain Beefheart and The Mothers of Invention.

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