Jane and Matthew / Large Image

Everyone knows Cristophe Boutin is an artist/filmmaker/editor, but how many of you know he began life as a bluegrass musician and then as a punk rocker who made three albums with CBS in the late 1970s? with cinematographer Garret Linn with the help of Chris Hoover and Mélanie Scarciglia in West Virginia, where he revisited his musical roots by filming the bluegrass group Ernie Thacker Route 23. This is deep Amerika, far from coastal frivolities east & west. Christophe has caught an intimate moment between bluegrass musician Matthew Thacker and his girlfriend Jen, C. Boutin enlarged it for public viewing.
Afterart News #4, Richard Dailey