Marc Ribot

HARD TO FIND MATERIAL!Don't Blame Me is a 1995 album of solo guitar recorded by Marc Ribot and released on the Japanese DIW label. It features several interpretations of jazz standards, showtunes, and modern jazz compositions as well as three improvisations by Ribot.

Review (All Music Guide) by Brian Beatty

A stark import album of solo jazz guitar as only Marc Ribot would think to play it. Some songs sound purely accidental (the original "Noise #1" and Albert Ayler's "Ghost"), while others reveal less-familiar sweet and haunted sides of the guitarist's playing style (Duke Ellington's "Solitude" and Charlie Haden's "Song for Che"). Though probably a must-have for completists and ardent fans of New York City's downtown avant-garde, Don't Blame Me isn't the place for the uninitiated to begin. For the undaunted, the easiest way of purchasing this hard-to-find album is probably directly from the guitarist's Internet site.

TRACKS
1. I'm in the Mood for Love
2. Noise 1
3. Don't Blame Me
4. Ghosts
5. Spigot
6. Body and Soul
7. Bouncin' Around
8. Solitude
9. Dinah
10. Song for Che
11. These Foolish Things
12. Noise 2
13. Ol' Man River