Prime Cuts

Steve Morse - Prime Cuts

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Artist: Steve Morse
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2005-05-24
Music Label: Magna Carta
Soundtracks:
  1. Heightened Awareness
  2. Prognosis
  3. La Villa Strangiato
  4. The Clap
  5. Quantum Soup
  6. Busybodies
  7. Led On
  8. Air On A 6 String
  9. Wooden Music

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Music Review: Nice package, no mere compilation...
Rating: 5 Stars

Any product containing Steve Morse music earns five stars for that fact alone. Add some video, and you've got a great deal. I should mention that all nine of the songs offered here are available on separate releases, each containing stellar music by Steve and other artists.

My list of sources: "Prognosis" and "Led On" can be found on Major Impacts (2000); "Air On A 6 String" and "Wooden Music" can be found on Major Impacts 2 (2004); "Heightened Awareness" and "Busybodies" can be found on Split Decision (2002). These are all Steve Morse or Steve Morse Band projects and are must-have CDs for the serious Morse-ophile!

"Quantum Soup" is available on the Jordan Rudess CD entitled Feeding the Wheel (2001). I have not heard the CD (outside of that tune) but will be ordering it soon. "La Villa Strangiato" is from a '96 Rush tribute CD entitled Working Man. "The Clap" is from a '95 Yes tribute CD entitled Tales from Yesterday, which also features Steve's rendition of "Mood for a Day". Neither CD is a standout, but worth a couple bucks used.
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Description of Prime Cuts

A collection of Steve?s finest work from his Magna Carta sessions Bonus: 11 minute video interview with Steve. Steve Morse performing with Terry Bozzio, Dave LaRue, James Murphy, Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci, Van Romaine, Jordan Rudess, Billy Sheehan and Mark Wood.

Take almost anything Morse does on these compositions, whether it?s the ever-darting, constantly modulating ostinato on "Heightened Awareness", or the thematic line from "Busybodies", or perhaps the dense layers of "Wooden Music". You will notice that melody always takes precedence. Mind you, you? ll also get a good dose of speed and heightened articulation: Perhaps this is what happens when a left-handed player turns the guitar around and plays it the "right" way. It places his stronger hand on the neck, promoting dexterity?and adding a certain "meat" to the tone. Morse?s lines don?t whither or trail off. Of course, this is very much a conscious effort and has much to do with his right hand picking virtually every note?not a lot of slurring going on! Also key to his unique sound is the design of his instrument, one that has evolved from the early years when he employed multiple pickups to catch every string nuance.

Steve wears his southern influences on his sleeve. While his tone speaks of the blues greats, it also twangs of the country. Listen to the way he handles the Yes standard, "The Clap". No question, Morse can hang with the likes of Albert Lee any day.

Aside from deep country and that Dixie funk, Morse exhibits a huge variety of guitar influences, from Steve Howe to John McLaughlin, the latter who seemed to define for a generation the proper ratio of jazz to rock. Then there?s this pervasive baroque thing, almost Mozart like in its staccato phrases and Bach like in its serenity?evidence, perhaps, of Steve?s classical studies in Florida (check out "Air on a 6-String" or the figure that begins around 00.50 on "Prognosis"). No wonder he used to typify his work as "modern chamber music"!

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