Chris Whitley "Din Of Ecstasy" 2024-10-25 When "Dead Again" was released

When "Dead Again" was released in 2007 it became the band's highest charting album of their career

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Chris Whitley "Din Of Ecstasy" 2024-10-25 When "Dead Again" was releasedChris Whitley was an artist with his feet planted in two very different worlds. On one side was a guitarist songwriter who grew up with the Delta and Chicago blues of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf, with some Bob Dylan thrown in. But at the same time, he was hanging out with NYC Lower East Side avant gardeists like Arto Lindsey and Michael Beinhorn during his early 80s formative years. And it is precisely that tension between tradition