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Eugene Chadbourne

Born

January 04, 1954

Genre

Music

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Eugene Chadbourne (born January 4, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and music critic.

Chadbourne was born in Mount Vernon, New York, but grew up in Boulder, Colorado. He started playing guitar when he was eleven or twelve, inspired by the Beatles and hoping to get the attention of girls. Although he was drawn to Jimi Hendrix and played in a garage band, he found rock and pop music too conventional. He gravitated to the avant-garde jazz of Anthony Braxton and Derek Bailey. Braxton persuaded Chadbourne to abandon his intention to enter journalism and instead pursue music.

During the early 1970s, he lived in Canada to avoid military service in the Vietnam War. Returning to the United States, he moved to New York City in the mid 1970s and play ...more

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Eugene Chadbourne’s books

Average rating: 4.07 · 15 ratings · 5 reviews · 2 distinct works

	I Hate the Man Who Runs This Bar! 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreamory 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Eugene Chadbourne (?)

“Don't Happy. Be Worry.”
― Eugene Chadbourne

tags: happiness-worry

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