Arch collaborator Marc Ribot comes out with solo tour

Marc Ribot has lent his experimental guitar sounds to albums by the likes of Elvis Costello and Tom Waits. He tells Eoghan O’Sullivan to get ready for anything at his one Irish show

TALKING to Marc Ribot is quite a daunting experience. Born in New Jersey in 1954, he’s worked with countless acclaimed artists, such as T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Norah Jones and Robert Plant, recorded a couple of albums with his Cuban/Latin ‘dance band’ Los Cubanos Postizos, and fronts a more straight-up rock band, Ceramic Dogs, who are two albums into their career.

He’s also an accomplished solo performer, and will display as such at De Barra’s on January 29, the first in what is a planned series of ‘Clonakilty International Guitar Festival Presents…’ shows.