Track Listing
Click tracks with speaker icon to listen| 1 | Before We Were Born / Some Song and Dance | 6:46 |
| 2 | Freddy's Step | 3:02 |
| 3 | Love Motel | 6:43 |
| 4 | Pip, Squeak | 5:27 |
| 5 | Goodbye | 1:37 |
| 6 | Hard Plains Drifter | 13:18 |
| 7 | The Lone Ranger | 7:30 |
| 8 | Steady, Girl | 2:08 |
News & Reviews
- Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Financial Times: Five Stars for Bill Frisell and His "Spot-On Scores" to Films at Barbican Show
Fresh off yesterday's five-star review in The Guardian, Bill Frisell's tour-closing concert at the Barbican earns another five stars, from the Financial Times. For the show, the Frisell Trio performed Bill's "spot-on score" that gave "a zesty sheen" to the films of Buster Keaton, Jim Woodring, and Bill Morrison, with the Trio's musical efforts "equal partner in the audiovisual experience." The paper sums up Bill's works as "a soundscape pregnant with humour, menace and the struggle to survive."
- Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Guardian: Five Stars for Bill Frisell Trio's Film Music at the Barbican
Bill Frisell concluded his Trio tour—playing music to the films of Buster Keaton, Bill Morrison, and Jim Woodring—at the Barbican in London on Saturday as part of the London Jazz Festival. The Guardian gives a perfect five stars to the performance, in which the Trio gave "all the light and shade needed to underpin three very different film-makers' visions ... Best of all were the Buster Keaton movies The High Sign and One Week, integrating music and vision so brilliantly it was impossible to think of the event as pure film or just jazz."
About this Album
Downtown Manhattan avant-garde luminaries Julius Hemphill, Arto Lindsey, and John Zorn join Frisell on his Nonesuch debut. Declared the New York Times: "By following through on the implications of his unfettered sounds, Mr. Frisell has made his best album."
Credits
MUSICIANS
Bill Frisell, banjo (2, 4), acoustic and electric guitars
Arto Lindsay, electric guitar (1, 4, 5), voice (5)
Peter Scherer, keyboards (1, 4), drum programming (1), keyboard bass (5)
Joey Baron, drums
Hank Roberts, cello (2, 3)
Kermit Driscoll, electric bass (2, 3)
Julius Hemphill, Billy Drewes, alto saxophone (2)
Doug Wieselman, baritone saxophone (2)
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Album produced by Lee Townsend
Mastered by Greg Calibi
Track 1, 4, 5 recorded at Skyline Studios, Platinum Island, and Creative Audio Recording, New York City, August 1988
Recording and Mixing Engineer: Roger Moutenot
Assistant Engineers: Pat Dillet, Oz Fritz, and Jason Baker
Produced by Peter Scherer and Arto Lindsay
Track 2 recorded at Power Station, New York City, September 1988
Recording and Mixing Engineer: James Farber
Assistant Engineer: Gary Solomon
Produced by Lee Townsend
Track 3 recorded at Sound on Sound Recording, New York City, September 1988
Mixed at Skyline Studios, New York City
Recording and Mixing Engineer: Roger Moutenot
Assistant Engineers: Michael McMackin and Paul Angelli
Produced by John Zorn
All songs composed by Bill Frisell. Tracks 1, 4, 5 arr. Bill Frisell, Peter Scherer, and Arto Lindsay; track 2 arr. Bill Frisell; track 3 arr. John Zorn. Track 5 lyrics by Arto Lindsay.
Art direction and design: Manhattan Design
Cover photography by Laura Levine
Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz
