Search - Artist/Band: Eugene Chadbourne

• Name: Eugene Chadbourne
• Birthday: 01/04/1954
• Birth Place: Mount Vernon, NY
• Decades Active: 1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Avant-Garde
• Styles: Experimental, Art Rock, Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz
• Moods: Eccentric, Acerbic, Amiable/Good-Natured, Boisterous, Cynical/Sarcastic, Freewheeling, Humorous, Ironic, Quirky, Witty, Enigmatic, Irreverent, Playful, Provocative, Complex, Gritty, Uncompromising, Silly

Title	Release
Hearing Is Believing WA	11/20/2007
G.O.I.N. "Get out of Iraq Now" - DVD - Featuring: Brian Ritchie, Brian Jackson, Victor WA	05/03/2007
The Foxbourne Chronicles WA	2005
Country Protest Anew WA	2004
I Support the Troops and I Want My Money Back WA	2003
To Prevail or Not to Prevail	2003
Horror, Pt. 5: The Return of the Evil Club WA	12/01/2002
Horror, Pt. 4: The Thing With Two Heads WA	09/07/2002
Now Return Us to Normal WA	09/07/2002
Homeland Security WA	06/2002
Texas Sessions, Chapter 2 WA	05/28/2002
In the Malakoff Diggings WA	04/20/2002
Jimi 2 WA	04/20/2002
Bach: Sonata and Partita No. 1 for Violin Adapted for 5-String Banjo WA	2002
New War WA	12/2001
The Perfect C&W Duo's Tribute to Jesse Helms	10/2001
Piramida Cu Povesti WA	01/30/2001
Ayler Undead WA	2001
Chasin' the Captain Jack/Communication Is Over-Rated WA	2001
Horror, Pt. 3: X the Man With the X-Ray Eyes WA	2001
The Jack & Jim Show- 2001: A Spaced Odyssey WA	2001
Pain Pen WA	07/25/2000
Young at Heart/Forgiven WA	06/27/2000
I Talked to Death in Stereo WA	04/11/2000
Bed Bugs WA	2000
Chadbourne Baptist Church, Vol. 2 WA	2000
Communication Is Overrated WA	2000
Della 5-Banger WA	2000
Dimsum, Dodgers and Dangerous Nights	2000
Fuck the Audio Evolution Network: A Documentary WA	2000
Guitar Freakout WA	2000
Seven Sisters WA	2000
Texas Session WA	2000
Vision-Ease WA	2000
Wombat on the Way WA	2000
Beauty and the Bloodsucker WA	11/16/1999
Horror, Pt. 2: Banned WA	1999
Jimi WA	1999
The Guitar Lesson WA	1999
Solo Acoustic Guitar, Vol. 2 WA	08/17/1998
Any Other Suggestions? WA	1998
Chadbourne Luck: Second Chance at Jazz, Vol. 1 & 2 WA	1998
Jungle Cookies WA	1998
Normalized WA	1998
Termite Damage WA	1998
To Phil WA	1998
Worms With Strings WA	1998
Patrizio WA	02/28/1997
Insect and Western Attracter WA	1997
Satie WA	1997
The Hellingtunes WA	1997
The Intellectual and Emotional World of the Cockroach WA	1997
Wild Partners	1997
End to Slavery WA	09/15/1996
Jesse Helms Busted With Pornography	07/04/1996
Boogie with the Hook WA	1996
Chadbourne Barber Shop	1996
Original 7 WA	1996
Pachuco Cadaver	12/12/1995
Electric Rake Cake	05/26/1995
Liberation Libba Nation WA	1995
Another Country WA	1994
Songs WA	1993
Strings WA	1993
Terror Has Some Strange Kinfolks	1993
LSD C&W, Pt. 2	1992
Chad-Born Again WA	1991
Chadbourne Baptist Church, Vol. 3 WA	1991
Eddie Chatterbox Double Trio Jazz Album WA	1990
Nijmegen Hassen Hunt WA	1990
I've Been Everywhere WA	1988
The Eddie Chatterbox Double Trio Love Album WA	1988
There'll Be No Tears Tonight WA	01/1987
Country Music of Southeastern Australia WA	1986
Biker Music from SE Cambodia WA	1985
Dinosaur on the Way WA	1985
You Are in Bear Country WA	1985
In Memory of Nikki Arane WA	1980
1977-78 WA
Auspicious Fish: Postage Paid Duets, Vol. 1
Eddie Chatterbox on Broadway, Vol. 1 WA
Eddie Chatterbox on Broadway, Vol. 2 WA
I Had Something to Prove WA
Second Chance at Jazz, Vol. 1 WA
Second Chance at Jazz, Vol. 2 WA

A seemingly endless -- and endlessly eclectic -- series of releases made the innovative guitarist Eugene Chadbourne one of the underground community's most well-known and well-regarded eccentrics. Born January 4, 1954 in Mount Vernon, NY, Chadbourne was raised in Boulder, CO, by his mother, a refugee of the Nazi death camps. At the age of 11, the Beatles inspired him to learn guitar; later exposure to Jimi Hendrix prompted him to begin experimenting with distortion pedals and fuzzboxes. Ultimately, however, he became dissatisfied with the conventions of rock and pop, and traded in his electric guitar for an acoustic one, on which he began to learn to play bottleneck blues.

Perhaps Chadbourne's most significant formative discovery was jazz; initially drawn to John Coltrane and Roland Kirk, he later became an acolyte of the avant excursions of Derek Bailey and Anthony Braxton. Despite the huge influence music exerted over his life, however, Chadbourne first studied to become a journalist, but his career was derailed when he fled to Canada rather than fight in Vietnam; only President Jimmy Carter's declaration of amnesty for conscientious objectors allowed the vociferously left-wing Chadbourne to return to the U.S. in 1976, at which time he plunged headlong into the New York downtown music scene. After releasing his 1976 debut, Solo Acoustic Guitar, he began collaborating on purely improvisational music with the visionary saxophonist John Zorn and the acclaimed guitarist Henry Kaiser.

Quickly, Chadbourne carved out a singular style, comprised of equal parts protest music, free improvisation, and avant-garde jazz, topped off with his absurd, squeaky vocals. A complete list of Chadbourne's countless subsequent collaborations and genre workouts is far too lengthy and detailed to exhaustively document, although in the early '80s he garnered some of his first significant attention as the frontman of Shockabilly, a demented rockabilly revisionist outfit which also featured the well-known producer Kramer. Following the group's breakup, Chadbourne turned to his own idiosyncratic brand of country and folk, accurately dubbed LSD C&W on a 1987 release, the same year he joined the members of Camper Van Beethoven for a one-off covers project. In addition, he recorded with artists ranging from Fred Frith and Elliott Sharp to Evan Johns and Jimmy Carl Black, the original drummer in the Mothers of Invention; in between, he continued exploring unique styles inspired by music from the four corners of the globe, all the while issuing a seemingly innumerable string of records, most of them on his own Parachute label. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide