Bill Frisell - Good Dog Happy Man
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Artist: Bill FrisellEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Rain, Rain
- Roscoe
- Big Shoe
- My Buffalo Girl
- Shenandoah (For Johnny Smith)
- Cadillac 1959
- The Pioneers
- Cold, Cold Ground
- That Was Then
- Monroe
- Good Dog, Happy Man
- Poem For Eva
Music reviews of Good Dog Happy Man
Music Review: Boring!! Lifeless, Meandering Folk Space Music
Rating: 1 Stars
A Tedious, Tiresome and Disappointing Continuance of Frisell's Exploration of American Traditional / Public Radio / Folk / Sleep Music.
Enough Already Bill!! How About Some Interesting Music For a Change, Like you Made 10-20 Years Ago.
Bill Frisell was (note the past tense WAS) the most innovative jazz guitarist of the 1980's-90's.
He created his own trademark sound: a twangy, bending, echoey wash of color, making his own distinct wall of sound
on every recording of his and every recording that he guested on.
I was such a huge fan of Bill that I would seek out and purchase every album that he appeared on to hear his performance.
There were dozens of albums which he contributed to, putting his signature wall of sound on.
Seek out the albums "Power Tools," or Marc Johnson's "Bass Deisres" (1987) or the 1991 Live album
with Kermit Driscoll and Joey Baron to hear Frisell in a powerhouse performance.
The 1996 piece "Faith In You," from Marc Johnson's "The Sound of Summer Running" has a duo
between Frisell and Pat Metheny which is one of the most beautiful compositions I've ever heard.
Then around 1998 he decided he was going to move away from that eclectic fusion of sound.
His 1998 album "Gone Like a Train" opens with an exlposive fusion composition, then turns into a mush of uninspired improv.
That was the point he left the exciting guitar sounds and changed his career into experimental ad-lib American Folk Soundscapes.
Those of us like myself who purchased his next album "Good Dog Happy Man" were disappointed beyond belief
when the entire album was an uninspired, lifeless recording of Meditational Sleep Music, from beginning to end.
Leaving us to ponder the title: "GOOD performers, but a DOG album."
Or, perhaps his dog produced the album, hence the idea "GOOD DOG! You recorded my album, so I"m a HAPPY MAN."
Most of us fans hoped that this was just a temporary venture for him. Instead, for 10 years now he increased his popularity
on National Public Radio and has released one album after another, sometimes 2 albums a year of this meandering slop.
This album Incorporates some fine musicians for sure, but frankly, wasting their time just sitting around playing a few notes throughout this dullness.
Despite the efforts that went into it, Frisell's music in the last 10 years is so boring and dull that even those suffering sleep apnea and insomnia would need
something with more movement to help them relax.
Description of Good Dog Happy Man
2 LP 180 Gram vinyl includes the complete CD. Following upon the success of GONE, JUST LIKE A TRAIN, Bill Frisell reunites with his much-admired partners from this last outing - plus others - for another session of inspired music-making. Joined by renowned drummer Jim Keltner and Lyle Lovett bassist Viktor Krauss, the core band is further expanded to a quintet with the addition of Greg Leisz (Joni Mitchell, k.d. lang) on dobro, mandolin and steel guitars, Wayne Horvitz on organ and Billy Cox on guitar, with a special guest appearance by Ry Cooder. With the gut-first feeling of rock, the subtleties of jazz, and the earnestness of country, Bill Frisell continues to create a genre unto himself.The live-simple equation reached in the title of Good Dog, Happy Man might lull the listener into believing that Bill Frisell's continuing vamp on his Nashville band is reaching for the quaintest sounds possible. But in truth, this mellow-opening recording is as reaching and full of yearning as any of the guitar great's other releases. He draws in the full-on bluegrass sound of Nashville with the more rock-hard crunch of that redoubtable effort's successor, Gone, Just Like a Train, which debuted longtime session drummer Jim Keltner as an ideal foil for Frisell's squishy guitar end runs around flashiness. Keltner's back on board, as is bassist Viktor Krauss (who began his Frisellian foray on Nashville), but the band has grown to include Wayne Horvitz on Hammond B-3 for several steamy tracks, Greg Leisz on steel guitar and mandolin, and Billy Cox on second six-string guitar. Frisell marks each tune with a uniquely decentered stamp, giving off a comfortable aura for new listeners and sneaking in gobs of weird twists and phrases. In addition, he samples in layers of squiggles in spots, making Dog sound like an ageless pop gem as well as the boundary-busting bounty that it is. --Andrew Bartlett
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