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The Best of Bill Frisell: Vol. 1 - Folk Songs

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry; Raccoon Cat; Sugar Baby; We're Not From Around Here; The Pioneers; Rag; Verona; Shenandoah; Ballroom; Have A Little Faith In Me; Mr Memory; Wildwood Flower; Slow Dance; Sittin' On Top Of The World; Poem For Eva.

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Bill Frisell: The Best of Bill Frisell: Vol. 1 - Folk Songs

Read "The Best of Bill Frisell: Vol. 1 - Folk Songs" reviewed by John Kelman


Despite decidedly left-of-center beginnings--on his own ECM discs Rambler (1985) and Lookout for Hope (1988), and in collaboration with artists including Jan Garbarek and John Zorn--guitarist Bill Frisell has always been a melodist at heart. Even at his most outré--his oblique yet stunningly constructed solo on “Next Love," from clarinetist Don Byron's minor classic, Tuskegee Experiment ...

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Bill Frisell: The Best of Bill Frisell: Vol. 1 - Folk Songs

Read "The Best of Bill Frisell: Vol. 1 - Folk Songs" reviewed by Chris May


In Robert Reisner's biographical scrapbook, Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker (Quartet Books, 1988), one of the contributors tells how Parker, with a saxophone strung round his neck and a gorilla on his back, employed a ruse to clear a Manhattan nightclub of his fans, in order to facilitate the entrance of others waiting in line ...


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