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A native North Carolinian Henry Flynt has spent much of his life in New York and is know as a musician, composer and philosopher.
Flynt studied classical violin in North Carolina in the 1950s surrounded by southern "ethnic" cultures of bluegrass, country and blues and then went on to studied mathematics at Harvard, with a view to pursuing philosophy, while continuing his studies of New Music.
After hearing the wealth of traditional American folk music Flynt's musical world shifted "I just underwent a total conversion as a result of hearing that. And I immediately decided that the best musicians in the United States were at the bottom of the social ladder". (Interview with Flynt in the Wire Magazine October 2004).
For some 30 years the violinist/guitarist/wild man vocalist feverishly produced and documented a perplexingly large body of work in relative obscurity that until the 90's was to be largely unheard. His music varied from avant hillbilly blues, garage protest rock bands, improvised vocal music and Indian raga infused improvisations.
Flynt returned to live performance in 2008 after a twenty-five year absence.
In the last two years, his interests turned to “raga rock,” a hard-rock adaptation of the country selection “Lonesome Train Dreams” on his album Graduation. “Lonesome Train Dreams” featured a double lead of six-string and pedal steel over a riffing rhythm section.
The first of the new round of compositions is titled “Rockin’ Midnight,” and has been performed in Lisbon, Brooklyn, Baltimore, and Chicago. A rhythm section, this time pre-recorded, plays a riff which is always in C. Over the rhythm section, two six-string guitars provide a double lead in compare-and-contrast styles. In the four performances to date, Henry has been joined by his neice Elizabeth (Libby), who plays a Strat.
Flynt has updated his sound, using effects more aggressively than in his guitar work of the last century.
Tonight Flynt will play solo as “Henry Flynt.”
www.henryflynt.org
