If you care enough about music in Chicago to be reading this blog, you're probably aware of guitarist Sam Zurick through his work with proto-emo wunderkinds Cap'n Jazz or maybe from his time in Joan of Arc. Given their relative popularity you're statistically less likely to know his later bands with Tim Kinsella, like Owls and Make Believe. If that's the case you're really missing out on some of the most stunning guitar work you'll ever hear, specifically in the latter group, for which he composed strangely beautiful and bafflingly complex melodic lines so far out from traditional pop- and blues-derived rock 'n' roll to practically be in their own orbit around the Earth.?
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Source: http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2011/08/19/scene-report-from-planet-sam-zurick
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