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    Songs We Love: Bill Orcutt, 'Ol' Man River'

    Orcutt's guitar playing scrambles conventional logic, but his take on the song from the 1927 musical Show Boat might be one of his gentlest tracks ever.
    by Marc Masters Jun 02, 2017 1 minute
    Bill Orcutt's self-titled album comes out June 30.

    's guitar playing scrambles conventional logic. Filled with unpredictable fits and starts, off-key tangents and buzzing half-notes, and sometimes enhanced by the haunting accompaniment of his own wordless moans, Orcutt's work continually challenges notions of musical rules included radical reworkings of "When You Wish Upon A Star," "White Christmas" and "Zip A Dee Doo Dah."

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