Jazz Articles about County Road X

County Road X: County Road X

by Farrell Lowe
March 2, 2003

County Road X is the first recorded example of what keyboardist/composer Erik Deutsch lovingly dubs "trailer park jazz." While his term may fit the essence of the music on this disc, I would offer a different tag to describe it...cinematic Americana. Imagine a highly spirited, fleshed-out redux of Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden's Beyond the Missouri Sky, replete with various stripes of keyboard colors, reedy accordian flourishes, pedal-steel guitar, cello, and glockenspiel. Bill Frisell's This Land or Brian Blade's Perceptual ...