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Live at the Deer Head Inn
Griffin Woodard
Label: Praise Message Music
Released: 2025
Duration: 01:44:00
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Tracks
Announcement; All Glory, Laud, and Honor; Route 1; Blue Nile; Blue Nile; Doxology; Camillus House; Alchemy; Emerald; Precious One; Polyphemus; Kyrie, All Glory, Laud, and Honor
Personnel
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Griffin Woodard - bass clarinet Cameron Campbell - piano Miles Gilbert - bass Hugh Kline - drums Recorded by Jim McGee Deer Head Inn - Delaware Water Gap, PA April 2, 2023 Mixed and Mastered by Dave Darlington Bass Hit Studio - New York, NY April 29-30 & May 15, 2023 Photography by Tarik Jaawani Graphic design by Ryen Valentin PMM-1001 ℗ & © 2023 Praise Message Music
Album Description
On Palm Sunday, April 2, 2023, the Griffin Woodard Quartet recorded a live concert at the legendary Deer Head Inn. LIVE at the DEER HEAD INN is a no-holds-barred performance that gracefully begins and ends with the devotional Palm Sunday hymn “All Glory, Laud, and Honor”. In between these solemn bookends are two powerful volumes of rollicking musical offerings. Volume I begins with a resonant suite which includes Woodard’s “Route 1” and “Camillus House” from his debut album Completion, Alice Coltrane’s “Blue Nile”, and Louis Bourgeois' “Doxology”. The suite is rooted in spiritual symbolism acknowledging watershed places and crossroads that led to Woodard’s father’s triumph over drug and alcohol addiction. Volume I ends with a boisterous, devil-may-care Woodard composition dubbed “Alchemy”, which prominently features the drums and bass clarinet speaking to each other with fierce interplay. Volume II begins with the formidable “Emerald” which vacillates between a thunderous rubato melody and a fiery minor blues. “Precious One” is a delicate flower composed by drummer Hugh Kline. It stands apart from the others by offering a welcome respite from the weighty emotional turbulence surrounding it. “Polyphemus”, another Kline piece, distinguishes itself by its uncanny, harmonic modernism. Wrapping up, “Kyrie” carries the listener full circle to the somber depths of the beginning suite. The blues are once again revisited with full-throttled reverence.
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