Chris Thile - Leading Off
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Artist: Chris ThileEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-09-25
Music Label: Sugarhill
Soundtracks:
- Shadow Ridge
- Slime Rock
- Holdin' Down The Fort
- Faith River
- Panhandle Rag
- For All It's Worth
- Shipwrecked
- Trail's End
- Salt Creek
- Old Dangerfield
- Old Favorites Medley: The Girl I Left Behind/Dixie/Liberty/Arkansas Traveler/Whiskey Before...
- Chris Cross
- How Great Thou Art
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Music Review: Let's see any other mandolin player do this!
Rating: 5 Stars
You can't review this CD without adding the historical perspective that young Chris Thile was only 12 at the time. Yet he had also just won the national mandolin championship, and to say this is "good for a 12 year old" completely misses the point that Chris was already simply blowing people away. Now about twice as old, Chris has developed, to be sure. He has gone from a smiling little hot-shot kid mandolin player to the leader of Nickel Creek - a band with gold recordings and grammies in their pocket, with more on the way. Does Chris play better now than he did at 12? Well, yes, but just LISTEN to his playing on this recording. A Chicago Tribune review has been quoted often, calling Chris a "Force of Nature with a Flatpick". I saw Nickel Creek last night and Chris continues to storm the stage with siblings Sean and Sara Watkins - but this is the review for "Leading Off".
Chris'playing here is mature and inventive. He plays with bell-like clarity and machine-gun like speed. He alternates passages of mind-bending blues with soft, lovely contemplative movements. IBMA President (and Hot Rize banjoist) Pete Wernick surrounds Chris with great players like Pete himself, John Moore and Stuart Duncan.
It is difficult to say if the more impressive cuts are the ones written by pre-teen Chris (such as Chris Cross and Slime Rock) or his bewilderingly amazing interpretations of classic old tunes such as Salt Creek or Panhandle Rag. He performs a medley of old favorites which includes The Girl I Left Behind, Liberty, Arkansas Traveler and Whiskey Before Breakfast. I would simply ask that you compare 12-year old Chris' versions to versions recorded by Grisman, Wayne Benson, Sam Bush or Norman Blake. The truth is that young master Thile's playing at 12 years old already surpassed the "masters".
Get Chris' other recordings as well (don't miss "Into the Cauldron" with Mike Marshall or Chris on Mark O'Connor's 30th Anniversary recording). But don't pass up on "Leading Off" because it's only "a kid" playing. The kid is growing up to be an American Mozart.
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