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| Artist: Bill Frisell
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 71473
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 79415
UPC: 075597941524
EAN: 0075597941524
ASIN: B000005J4A
Release Date: April 29, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Gimme a Holler | | • | Go Jake | | • | One of These Days - Bill Frisell, Young, Neil | | • | Mr. Memory | | • | Brother | | • | Will Jesus Wash the Bloodstains from Your Hands - Bill Frisell, Dickens, Hazel | | • | Keep Your Eyes Open | | • | Pipe Down | | • | Family | | • | We're Not from Around Here | | • | Dogwood Acres | | • | Shucks | | • | The End of the World - Bill Frisell, Kent, Arthur | | • | Gone |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Bill Frisell is a gentle giant of modern guitar, pure in his jazz-influenced mission to uncover and reinvent American music across a disparate styles. At once unmistakable for the fluid, elastic sound of his instrument and restless in his pilgrimage across often widely varied sources, Frisell can find the lyrical gold beneath pop, rock, and classical sources--devling into Madonna, Aaron Copeland, and John Hiatt with equal success. Nashville finds Frisell exploring the kindred small group dynamics and string-bending aesthetics of country and bluegrass in the company of a shrewdly-chosen players including members of Alison Krauss' esteemed Union Station band, virtuoso dobro player Jerry Douglas, and vocalist Robin Holcomb, who confers an earthy beauty to the set's three vocals culled from Neil Young ("One of These Days"), Hazel Dickens ("Will Jesus Wash the Bloodstains from Your Hands"), and Skeeter Davis's country crossover, "The End of the World." Keening lyricism, soul-deep emotions, and the kinship of wonderful musicians communicating across putative stylistic borders make Nashville a stunning achievement. --Sam Sutherland
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| Customer Reviews:
 Gone, just like a country pie January 17, 2008
Andrew B. Noselli (New Milford, NJ)
I like this album a lot more than I did Frissell's Gone Just Like a Train. If your idea of country music is Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Dylan's Nashville Skyline and Van Morrison's Pay the Devil, you will like this album. I do not disagree with the reviewer who said that this was a record for the easy-listening country-jazz audience. This music fits in very well in my collection of Dylan, Van Morrison, Grateful Dead and Tom Waits. I listen to these kinds of artists, but when I want more of an instrumental country flavor this disc slides into the mix quite nicely.
 Country Feng Shui August 4, 2006
John Brockell (Easley, S.C. United States)
The essential elements that are needed to blend an amalgam rarely understood as eclectic music, are only available to gifted alchemist that have mastered and gone beyond that, which is commonly coined popular. Bill Frisell is such an alchemist, turning lead into gold with an intuitive knowledge and mastery of what is ear glitter.
If you are in need of a much deserved break from your quest from the labors of connoisseurship, placed this CD first in the 300 multi disc player, so that you don't forget it's geography when you press the decompress switch.
More Fretboard Magic as the Master Conquers the Unknown May 5, 2002
Chris Holmes (Corfu, Greece)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
In fact, I'm sure Frisell knew *exactly* what he was doing with this Who's Who of ace Nashvilleines, even if it was a totally new one on me. Heck, I thought I'd discovered a new 'secret' maestro to worship outside the roar of the crowd.
Apart from Frisell's album with Ginger Baker, this is the one I play to my fellow gigsters just to smirk when they go "Who IS that guy?"
A great sound, enhanced by non-pareil musicians: the incomparable Jerry Douglas whose dobro playing sets the standard for others to be judged by; the siren-voiced Robin Holcomb with an impeccable handling of Neil Young's 'One of These Days'; bassist Viktor Krauss and Adam Steffey in surprisingly muscular mandolin form.
I would not have placed this as Frisell's field of forte, but that wiley genius just keeps surprising and pleasing me with effortless and genial ownership of anything he works his fretboard magic on.
Very original sounding March 20, 2002
Matt (Naples, FL United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I really liked how Bill incorporated so many different guitar sounds into one album, along with banjo and other seldom heard instruments in this genre of music. I only gave it 4-stars because the tracks with vocals aren't very good. The female vocalist really overdoes it with the vibrato and it's annoying to listen to. The instrumental tracks however are excellent; I particularly like "Go Jake" and "Brother." Check it out!
A brilliant piece of work! August 22, 2001
Pete (NYC, NY United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read the negative reviews of this record from the "Berklee jazz defenders of the faith" and it makes me sad. How can you not appreciate this collection of work? First, he's got the cream of the bluegrass crop on this record and every one of them delivers. Secondly, he doesn't make the mistake of trying to outplay them. In fact my only problem with this record is that he lays back a little too much. Bill Frisell is a musical alchemist worthy of high praise and we can only hope that he continues to redefine musical categories right in the face of the elitests who deride him.
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