About Julian Lage: Long hailed as one of the most prodigious guitarists of his generation, Modern Lore finds Lage playfully flipping the script he followed on his acclaimed 2016 Mack Avenue debut, Arclight. That album—produced, like Modern Lore, by Lage's friend and collaborator, singer-songwriter Jesse Harris—was his first trio set on electric guitar and found Lage inspired by the sounds and the attitude of the freewheeling, pre-bebop jazz era, when, as he puts it, "country music and jazz and swing were in this weird wild-west period." |