The Best of Bill Frisell, Vol. 1: Folk Songs
Have a Little Faith in Me (listen to full-length track)
Mr. Memory
Poem for Eva (listen to full-length track)
Raccoon Cat
We're Not from Around Here
Shenandoah (for Johnny Smith)
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Bill Frisell's "Nashville" Now Available on Vinyl
Bill Frisell's classic album Nashville, first released on Nonesuch Records in 1997, is now available worldwide on vinyl for the first time. The vinyl edition, made in partnership with Run Out Groove, was mastered for vinyl by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound in a two-LP set pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Industry in the Netherlands. Limited to 3,000 copies worldwide, the set comes in a gatefold tip-on jacket made at Stoughton Printing with outtake photos from the sessions.
The first in a series of compilations drawn from Bill Frisell's catalog spotlights his idiosyncratic excursions into country and traditional folk. The Guardian calls it "a delectable collection," and The Independent gives five stars to this album of "beautiful, ringing musicality: 15 pieces of fathomless depth played with the freshness and simplicity that only genius brings. Make your world anew and treat yourself."
"It's hard to find a more fruitful meditation on American music than in the compositions of guitarist Bill Frisell," says the New York Times.
Bill Frisell, electric and acoustic guitars (1-15), loops (3, 5, 8, 13-15), music boxes (5, 8, 15)
Viktor Krauss, bass (2, 4, 5, 7-9, 11, 15)
Jim Keltner, drums, percussion (2, 5, 7-9, 15)
Danny Barnes, banjo, acoustic guitar, bass harmonica, pump organ (3, 14)
Keith Lowe, bass (3, 14)
Jerry Douglas, dobro (4, 11)
Greg Leisz, pedal steel, lap steel, National steel guitar, mandolin (5, 13, 15); Weissenborn (5, 15); Dobro, Scheerhorn resonator guitar (13)
Wayne Horvitz, organ, piano, samples (5, 15)
Ry Cooder, electric and Ripley guitar (8)
Kermit Driscoll, bass (10)
Joey Baron, drums (10)
David Piltch, bass (13)
Kenny Wollesen, drums, percussion (13)
All tracks produced by Lee Townsend, except tracks 4, 6, 10, 11 by Wayne Horvitz
Tracks 1, 12 from Ghost Town; Recording and Mixing Engineer: Christian Jones
Tracks 2, 7, 9 from Gone, Just Like a Train; tracks 5, 8, 15 from Good Dog, Happy Man; track 13 from Blues Dream; Recording and Mixing Engineer: Judy Clapp
Tracks 3, 14 from The Willies; Recording and Mixing Engineer: Tucker Martine
Tracks 4, 11 from Nashville; Recording and Mixing Engineer: Roger Moutenot
Track 6 from Is That You?; Recording Engineer: Jay Follette; Mixing Engineer: Roger Moutenot
Track 10 from Have a Little Faith; Recording and Mixing Engineer: Joe Ferla
All songs written by Bill Frisell, except track 1 by Hank Williams; track 3, 8, 14 Traditional; track 10 by John Hiatt; and track 12 by A. P. Carter
Cover photograph by Michael Wilson
Design by Barbara deWilde
Disfarmer
History, Mystery
Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian
Further East / Further West (MP3s)
East/West
The Intercontinentals
The Willies
Bill Frisell with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones
Blues Dream
Good Dog, Happy Man
Fred Hersch, Bill Frisell
Songs We Know
Gone, Just Like a Train
Deep Dead Blue (with Elvis Costello)
Music for the Films of Buster Keaton: The High Sign / One Week
Music for the Films of Buster Keaton: Go West
This Land
Have a Little Faith
Before We Were Born
on December 16, 2008 - 12:50pm
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 05:00