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Eugene Chadbourne

Eugene Chadbourne is an American guitarist, banjo player and singer who came out of the New York free improvisation scene of the 1970s. He is known for a large catalogue of releases that mixes free improvisation, country, protest songs and rock covers, for the band Shockabilly and for the electric rake, a garden rake fitted with a pickup. Eugene Chadbourne played free improvisation in New York with John Zorn and Henry Kaiser, and recorded School with Zorn on Parachute.