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Sunburned Hand of the Man’s Marc Orleans has died


Marc Orleans, an acclaimed guitarist and pedal steel player who was a member of the experimental Boston collective Sunburned Hand of the Man, has died.

Writing on Twitter last night (June 28), Ela Orleans confirmed that Orleans died on Thursday (June 25) at the age of 52 and paid tribute to “the guitar genius… grand chess player, painter and fly-fishing master, the person who gave me my surname and first guitar”.

The news of Orleans’ death was also confirmed by his former collaborator Tom Carter, who made music with Orleans in the group Eleven Twenty-Nine. In his Facebook tribute, Carter wrote: “Made a lot of music with this beautiful and tortured individual who died because the world failed him. RIP Marc glad you knew I loved you.”

made a lot of music with this beautiful and tortured individual who died because the world failed him. RIP marc glad you knew i loved you

Posted by Tom Carter on Sunday, June 28, 2020

Orleans played in a number of bands during his career, including the Boston grunge outfit Spore who put out two albums, ‘Spore’ and ‘Giant’, in 1993 and 1994 respectively. He later made and released records with the band Juneau.

By 1998, Orleans had begun recording with Sunburned Hand of the Man, and notably featured on such LPs as ‘Headdress’ (2003) and the Four Tet-produced 2007 album ‘Fire Escape’.

Orleans was also a member of Enos Slaughter and D. Charles Speer & the Helix, while he worked on music with the likes of Steve Gunn, Meg Baird, Michael Chapman, Chris Forsyth and the Clean’s Hamish Kilgour.

A number of tributes to Orleans have been posted on social media since news of his passing broke over the weekend. You can see a selection of those below.





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