Thursday, September 20, 2007

Tragedy in the Guitar World


A sad goodbye to Carter Albrecht, a 34 year old singer, songwriter, a very stylish player who's work with Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians led to the success the band has seen in the past. My heart goes out to his family.

I will always equate Carters simplistic genius to the beginning riff on "What I Am", a song that may have been Edie's biggest hit. That particular guitar riff has been re-sampled and used a million times in various tracks, from hip hop songs to house music. It was just a very brilliant positional phrase for the guitar, and fun to play.

It pains me to hear that prescription drugs may have been involved in the bizarre circumstances surrounding his death. It pains me but it doesn't surprise me in the least. Most people think of drug abuse as being strictly limited to a crack pipe or some dingy hallway scoring heroine. In reality a large percentage of drug abuse and/or misuse comes from prescribed medications and all-to-willing doctors. It would seem that doctors never truly examine the lifestyle of their patients, or maybe they don't warn enough about the drugs they prescribe in relation to use or misuse of alcohol.

Either way, this is a sad bit of news, and not a piece I was expecting to write for guitarmethods - but it should be noted that Carter had a unique voice in our world and one that will be missed. Rest in Peace.

Carter remembered:

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