Search - Loren Connors :: Night Through: Singles & Collected Works 1976-2004

"Outside of Derek Bailey and John Fahey, I've never heard such purity in guitar playing." - Jim O'Rourke "[Connors] is an American original in much the same sense as John Fahey or Jandek, in that he's chosen a classically American form, in this case the blues, and in true pioneer spirit, taken it off somewhere else." - THE WIRE "One of my generation's finest and most fervently iconoclast musical voices." - Byron Coley The essential collection of singles by guitarist Loren (nee MazzaCane) Connors, one of America's most unique and challenging voices. Night Through spans four decades of Connors' recordings, from the first solo 7" (Ribbon o' Blues on St. Joan) and critically acclaimed, rare singles issued by Table of the Elements, Road Cone, Father Yod, Menlo Park, Gyttja, and Union Pole to his late nineties band Haunted House and recent acoustic recordings. In all, this 3XCD set contains three and half hours of music: twelve 7" singles, private CD-R releases, collaborations with Suzanne Langille and Robert Crotty, compilation appearances, and twenty-two unreleased pieces including a two-part tribute to Miles Davis and a 1959 recording by Connors' mother Mary Mazzacane. The twenty-four-page color booklet contains detailed notes and cover art for each single, plus never-before-seen photographs, a biographical and critical essay by renowned blues scholar Dr. William Ferris, and commentary from Connors, Langille, Road Cone's Mike Hinds, and more. Remastered from the original tapes by Jim O'Rourke, this is the definitive overview of Connors' journey as a consummate solo artist.