In the Foreground ...
Chris answers 15 questions.
Coinciding with his first album, Living with the Law, on Columbia Records, the label released a Canadian promotional interview CD. Thanks to Hiroshi Suda for sharing these files.
Chris talks about meeting Dan Lanois:
… how Dan Lanois influenced his career:
… meeting Malcolm Burn:
… how the blues influenced his music:
… how he found an audience after returning from Europe:
… how he learned to play guitar:
… what the acoustic guitar means to him:
… whether he still composes on the dobro:
… how other instruments complement his music:
… what he likes in a song [I heard e.g., “Long Way Around” and “Dust Radio” in my head as Chris talked about building to a crescendo]:
… how moving so much during his childhood affected him:
… having “Kick the Stones” included in Thelma & Louise [Interesting back story about how a demo of “Kick” recorded 2 years earlier figured into the production]:
… playing Euro-pop music in Belgium [Again, Chris’ need to be true to himself comes through]:
… being called “a bona fide poet” in Rolling Stone [Odd to hear his comments about poetry, knowing that a bit later in his life he’d read French Surrealist poetry ravenously]:
… playing live:
Thx Katie.. delving into these on my commute