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Katie Bull: Love Spook
The album opens with the title cut, and as that implies, it's a dark, unsettling piece that offers a different picture of what love can mean. Joe Fonda's bass provides the insistent underpinning for this disturbing yet rich portrait, but the painting also makes full use of the brilliant storytelling drums of Matt Wilson and the evocative piano of Frank Kimbrough, who knows about space and timing.
Equally revealing is what Bull does with a tune we know. Her vamp intro to the Sound of Music ditty "My Favorite Things includes some things that it seems Misters Rodgers and Hammerstein might never have considered as favorite. Or maybe they would have but could not have expressed them with the passion and conviction that Katie Bull does. Coltrane had changed this tune for all timewe thoughtbut Bull has changed it again.
Bull titles another original "Strange and indeed it iswith its mysterious wordless intro and then simple repeated lyricsbut this is strange in the best meaning of the word, with a sense of wonder and new differences to be celebrated. And that's what Bull and her bandmates do in all of these performancescelebrate new beginnings so that even old material never seems overly familiar.
Track Listing
Love Spook, My Favorite Things, Strange, On A Clear Day, Deer Run, Leftover Blues, I Only Have Eyes, I'll Be Seeing You, Watch What Happens, Connection Rag, Surrey With The Fringe On Top, Ashokan Road.
Personnel
Katie Bull
vocalsKatie Bull, vocals; Joe Fonda, bass; Frank Kimbrough or Michael Jefry Stevens, piano; Matt Wilson, percussion; Martin Wind, bass.
Album information
Title: Love Spook | Year Released: 2005 | Record Label: Corn Hill Indie
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