Din of Ecstasy - A Consequential Pivot [Part 1]

"Liberation or Death, that's all I want"

Sometimes I wonder if a sophomore album’s ‘change of tune’ has ever resulted in more ink applied to paper, more pixels splashed on screens, than Chris Whitley’s Din of Ecstasy. In this first of a multi-part series examining Din, I document the reactions to Whitley’s dramatic move from what many critics call the rootsy Living with the Law to the turbo-c…