"the pedal steel and harmonica wonder what happened to the American(a) dream and the more jazz inclined musicians search for spiritual guidance in the darkness"
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Playlist Companion:
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#jazz #improvisation #experimental

Thursday February 5th 8PM at Atonement. Sam Wenc + Friends & Victor Vieira Branco/Sam Yulsman duo. Philly record release show.

Sam Wenc pedal steel, Sam Yulsman piano, Joey Sullivan drums, John Moran bass, Victor Vieira Branco vibraphone, Will Henriksen violin & Matthew Lee bass clarinet/saxophone.

#RoleModels: Sam Wenc talks how Susan Alcorn—the late pedal steel guitarist, and his mentor—forever changed him as an artist

This week's Songs of Our Lives is w/ Sam Wenc! We talk about his new solo record on Lobby Art before getting into the multitudes of Okkyung Lee, Susan Alcorn’s all-time greatness, Robert Wyatt’s immortality, the romance of Henry Flynt, Green Day, Jeremy Lee Faulkner, feeo, Neil Young + more!

catching up with (& continuing to be blown away by the existence of) the @roulettenyc.bsky.social archive: from a few weeks back, a swell double-bill of sweeping para-jazz composition by prepared pedal steelist sam wenc (& sextet) & the ryan sawyer shaker ensemble. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KokB...