Jim Campilongo - Heaven Is Creepy
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Artist: Jim CampilongoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-09-19
Music Label: Blue Hen Records
Soundtracks:
- The Prettiest Girl in New York
- Monkey in a Movie
- Cry Me a River (instrumental)
- Mr & Mrs Mouse
- Because You Like Trombone
- Hamster Wheel (slight return)
- Beautiful Dreamer - with Martha Wainwright
- Menace
- Heaven Is Creepy
- Nellie Bly
- Cry Me a River - with Norah Jones
- Pepper
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Music Review: Eclectic, magnificent Telecaster
Rating: 5 Stars
I don't usually like instrumental albums from guitarists all that much. As a player myself, I often find that guitar works best in settings where it is not the sole object of attention.
But there are exceptions, and Jim Campilongo is one of them. Big time.
Jim Campilongo is one of the best guitarists you are likely to hear, and certainly the best Telecaster player you will ever hear. More than that, he is just one of the best musicians I have ever heard, with a love of tone, time and melody that simply makes his work crackle with energy and suspense. He knows his history, and freely echoes Roy Buchanan, Speedy West and Django Reinhardt without ever sounding stale or familiar. They are just ghosts in the room.
Campilongo plays with patience, impeccable timing and an off-kilter sense of humor that brings to mind the likes of Tom Waits as a singer and Thelonious Monk as a composer. Ragged edges are everywhere, slickness is nowhere to be found. Gorgeous, simple melodies are at the core of every piece.
His technique is absolutely awesome, but is used completely in service of the music. He knows, uses and expands every classic Telecaster trick in the book to incredible effect, but only other Telecaster players will know why it sounds go darn good. Everyone else just enjoys the music because it is so immediately involving and emotional.
For those who don't know: the Fender Telecaster is the earliest model of a factory made solid body electric guitar, first produced in 1950 and still made today. It is famous for its twangy, clanky tone, used in countless country and R&B recordings. It is notoriously unforgiving of mistakes and has peculiar limitations due to its primitive design.
Campilongo is one of the great Telecaster players, alongside Roy Buchanan, James Burton, Roy Nichols and Danny Gatton. He embraces all the quirks and limitations to create something of unique and profound beauty.
Enough gushing. Play it again!
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All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Guitarist Jim Campilongo is no more a jazz artist and no less eclectic than Norah Jones, his bandmate in their Little Willies side project. Like virtuosi as different from each other as Chet Atkins, Jeff Beck, and Pat Metheny--each of whom Campilongo's music occasionally recalls--he's more concerned with tone, timbre, and space than with show-off runs of hot-licks speed. With his rhythm section almost subliminal, supporting the guitarist rather than pushing him, the trio's music is primarily instrumental, though vocalist Martha Wainwright provides a timewarp turn with her tremulous vocal on Stephen Foster's "Beautiful Dreamer," while Jones cuts to the heart of "Cry Me a River" (also featured as a wiry instrumental). As the name of the album suggests, Campilongo has a knack for the quirky, catchy title, and as Chuck Berry once praised, "He can play the guitar just like ringing a bell" (literally, on the album-opening "The Prettiest Girl in New York"). --Don McLeese
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