Good Dog Happy Man
by Bill Frisell$301.80 Free Shipping
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- Released
- 11/3/09
- Music Genre
- Jazz
Description
No doubt pleased with his countrified direction on Gone, Just Like a Train, Bill Frisell gives us a lot more of basically the same thing here -- only with expanded numbers in the ranks. Bassist Viktor Krauss and drummer Jim Keltner return, now accompanied by Wayne Horvitz's understated organ and piano; Greg Leisz on an assortment of fretted instruments, including the dobro, pedal steel guitar and mandolin; and on "Shenandoah," Ry Cooder's atmospheric guitars. The first tracks of Good Dog, Happy Man pick up right where Gone, Just Like a Train left off -- low-key, perhaps too low-key -- but tracks like "Big Shoe" and "Cadillac 1959" add a bit of swagger to the lope and "Poem for Eva" sports the best tune. Again, Frisell often captures a loose, evolutionary jamming quality in these sessions, playing the country accents off of his jazz sensibilities. Unlike its predecessor, though, you can't imagine this being recorded on a backwoods front porch, for there are some production tricks and distant-sounding electronic loops that give away its Burbank studio origins. Purists on either side of the jazz/country divide are hereby warned to back off so that the rest of us can enjoy this. Richard S. Ginell.
Product Details
- Artist
- Bill Frisell
- Media Format
- Vinyl Record
- Label / Studio
- WEA/ATLANTIC/NONESUCH
- Media Content Format
- Album
- Number of Discs
- 1
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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Rain, Rain
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Roscoe
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Big Shoe
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My Buffalo Girl
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Shenandoah (For Johnny Smith)
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Cadillac 1959
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Pioneers
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Cold Cold Ground
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That Was Then
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Monroe
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Good Dog, Happy Man
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Poem for Eva
