Gary Lucas interview from Jewish Leadership website Leadel.net 6/08

In the summer of 2008, Gary Lucas, "The Thinking Man's Guitar Hero" (The New Yorker) was interviewed at the Knitting Factory in NYC for the Jewish leadership website www.leadel.net about his career as a guitarist, songwriter and composer. Here he shares his thoughts about Jewish music and its deep roots connection to the blues and also Indian, African, Celtic and other world music, his love of mixing up musical genres, and his core Jewish identity. This interview appears on leadel.net alongside interviews with many well-known Jewish leaders, including US attorney Alan Dershowitz, French intellectual Bernard Henri Levy, and former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer.

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[gotsmar]

awesome!

[cosmicrider287]

in my pantheon of favourite guitarists.

[strawwoodclaw]

Good Interview

[Mungo10]

Excellent interview.