Bill Orcutt’s Music for Four Guitars is a bit like a favorite dish. It tasted great the first time, delicious the second, and by the third, you’re starting to realize that it’s endlessly renewable. HausLive 4, an audience recording that was taped at Chicago’s Constellation venue and released on cassette by a local label, is that illuminating third edition. Whether the guitar nerd in your life throws down with a boombox in the backyard or a Bluetooth speaker in the shower, it’s the summer party soundtrack that they might not have known that they needed. But they do.
First, some history. Orcutt arrived at the original album after several years spent trying to answer a friend’s dare to compose a guitar quartet. He eventually reached a concept:…

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