Audio CD (March 7, 2000)
Original Release Date: March 7, 2000
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Nonesuch
ASIN: B00004NHIO

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All these sycophantic 5 star reviews of all of Frisell*s albums is getting tiresome. I own them all and count myself a serious, engaged fan of Frisell*s. I listen to the music seriously and ambiently as well. He*s a guy who seems unable to make up his mind whether he wants to be a legendary session player, adding his trademark guitar sound and riffs to collaborations, or whether he wants to fulfill some of his earlier promise as a true innovator and potential guitar genius. Guys like Mark O*Connor have managed to accomplish both, albeit on a different instrument, but Frisell seems to me to be absolutely in the first camp, that of session performer. But let*s not overpraise someone with a fairly consistent sound and some nice chops all too rarely shown off. A few years ago, Frisell looked ready to unleash his genius and soul, such as on his wild solo on “East Timor” on Ginger Baker*s “Unseen Rain” (which holds up nicely). But instead of moving forward, he settled into Joey Baron Zorn-influenced jazz sessions that are largely unremarkable. Frankly, I find the material no better than John Abercrombie*s work. Then Frisell looked like he was going to break out in a new genre, the kind of New Grass jazz material pioneered by O*Connor and Edgar Meyer (recommended: Skip Hop and Wobble), which Yo Yo Ma got on their train with on his successful Appalachian Journey, and Frisell put out his superb “Nashville.” Again, he didn*t go anywhere with it by himself, and he has churned out variations on it in various session recordings. Yet again he settles into session playing which I find unambitious and, to be frank, often soulless. I find it to be great shame, since that solo on “East Timor” shows the guy can draw on something inside that goes beyond the safe zone he so often inhabits. That said, Ghost Town is to me by far his most successful and consistent albums from Nashville through 2004 (when I*m writing now). Before you mark my review as unhelpful because I have criticized a purported guitar god, I am truly trying to be helpful by suggesting this cd over Blues Dream or Good Dog Happy Man or Intercontinentals or Unspeakable, for those who are not big fans but would like to pick up another Frisell since Nashville.

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Audio CD (March 7, 2000)
Original Release Date: March 7, 2000
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Nonesuch
ASIN: B00004NHIO

Tracks
1. Tell Your Ma, Tell Your Pa
2. Ghost Town / Poem for Eva
3. Wildwood Flower
4. Creep
5. Variation on a Theme (Tales from the Farside)
6. Follow Your Heart
7. I*m So Lonesome I Could Cry
8. What a World
9. My Man*s Gone Now
10. Outlaw
11. When I Fall in Love
12. Big Bob 2:48
13. Winter Always Turns to Spring
14. Justice and Honor
15. Fingers Snappin* and Toes Tappin*
16. Under a Golden Sky

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