Interview with Cranston Clements and Phil Degruy

Cranston Clements

Phil Degruy

Here is a long conversation with the live and wild minds of two venerable guitarists of New Orleans. They have singular approaches to subversive e comedy and guitar playing and even the design of their guitars. Phil Degruy has mostly been a solo player and it is observed across the world what level of innovative creativity he has brought to the instrument. Cranston is the epitome of the working musician, but he is also an indefatigable tinkerer with gear and makes everyone he works with sound great…because he does.

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Phil Degruy interviewee/ interviewer

Phil is one of the most fascinating and innovative instrumentalists from New Orleans.  His creativity is not bound by the guitar- he also modifies, or maybe corrects, a lot of what falls in front of him and on him.  He even invented and plays a kind of guitar- the guitarp.  In this interview in a few parts, he talks about style in his playing, his guitar influences, alternate lyrics, new orleans guitar scene history, and converses and hypothesizes about the problems of music business and herd mentality.

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 Then the tables suddenly turned...  Phil Degruy interviewed Jonathan Freilich about times in the city, guitar, Naked On The Floor, music philosophy, music background, and composition.

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