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Article: POST MODERN AMERICANA.(Bill Frisell)
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- Guitar Player
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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BILL FRISELL DICS INTO ROOTS MUSIC
Bill Frisell has slowly carved himself a unique place in the music world. The jagged melodies and strident harmonies of his early recordings--such as Lookout for Hope and Before We Were Born--posited him as a brainy, perhaps over-thinking guitarist. But over the past ten years, the cerebral veneer has worn away to reveal a folksy side of Frisell's musicality. On his latest album, Good Dog, Happy Man [Nonesuch], his discordant intervallic structures have, for the most part, been replaced by open G and D chords. His compositions--formerly dense and complex--now have the simple quality of folk songs, and his primal-scream solos ...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);
October 22, 1999 ;
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