Cooking with: Cary Kanno

Cary Kanno stalks Midwestern music venues embodying no fewer than three personalities. Sometimes he's the guitarist of the hip hop band Abstract Giants. Sometimes his strings weave depth into the grooves of the funk outfit Doko Benjo. And still other times he's the supercool acoustic cat that makes your girlfriend let you stick around for one more drink.
Long an advocate of Chicago's live hip hop scene, and an instrumental figure in the release of two celebrated Chicago Drop compilations, Kanno recently released his first two solo albums, projects, he announced by email, that he hopes will help him fund his ongoing music recording addiction.
"My goal is not to make a ton of money on these albums, but rather [I'm] trying to lose a little less," he wrote.
At a price of only $15 for both CDs, he's not asking too much.