For over thirty-five years, Marc Ribot’s name has been on the covers of albums by Tom Waits, Alain Bashung, Diana Krall, John Zorn, Robert Plant, Caetano Veloso and numerous other artists, and when he's not busy lending his unique guitar to others, the New Yorker takes pleasure, under his own name, in breaking down and re-building rock, jazz, funk, Cuban music and anything his fingers touch.

Wikipedia and other websites have listed every one of them! Here are some of his collaborators, just to give you a taste: Tom Waits, Laurie Anderson, Alain Bashung, The Black Keys, Diana Krall, Solomon Burke, Chocolate Genius, James Carter, Elvis Costello, John Zorn, Marianne Faithfull, Allen Ginsberg, Norah Jones, Tricky, Allen Toussaint, Dick Annegarn, Robert Plant and Caetano Veloso. There are dozens more. Hundreds, even. It’s impossible to know the names of everyone that Marc Ribot has, at some point, collaborated with. However, the American guitarist isn’t just a studio musician, despite having around twenty albums under his name or under a shared credit. The New Yorker, now 64, is often called upon for his unique sound, his touch and the dented mood that he has shaped over the years. Like an anti-guitar hero, the artsy Ribot originally emerged on the jazz scene. This is a heritage that the musician embraced, for example with his band Spiritual Unity with which he covered free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler's repertoire. However, his musical DNA is also made up of rock ‘n’ roll (demonstrated in his work with Tom Waits), soul music (early stage performances with Solomon Burke), classical music (the Haitian master Frantz Casseus was his teacher) and even Cuban music (with his band Los Cubanos Postizos).

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