Bill Frisell, Before We Were Born - 47m 2s

Tracks & Durations

1. Before We Were Born	6:51
2. Some Song and Dance - Freddy's Step	3:05
3. Some Song and Dance - Love Motel	6:48
4. Some Song and Dance - Pip, Squeak	5:27
5. Some Song and Dance - Goodbye	1:41
6. Hard Plains Drifter	13:22
7. The Lone Ranger	7:33
8. Steady, Girl	2:08

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Review

Guitarist Bill Frisell keeps shifting his supporting players on these 1988 recordings. The only track with just his working band of the period--Hank Roberts on cello, Kermit Driscoll on bass, and Joey Baron on drums--is the extended "Hard Plains Drifter," arranged by John Zorn. It's late-night spinning of the radio dial where most of the stations play country, but the tempos keep changing and the signals keep blurring, sometimes into avant-rock. The other major work is "Some Song and Dance," which adds three saxophones to the regular band for a four-part suite bracketed by the accelerated carnival of "Freddy's Step" and the spy movie intrigue of "Goodbye." In between, the slow and bluesy "Love Motel" makes effective use of altoist Julius Hemphill's funk-band roots, and Hemphill and Roberts find kaleidoscopic ways to stretch the jerky line of "Pip, Squeak." Frisell and Baron are joined by the team of Arto Lindsay on guitar and Peter Scherrer on keyboards for the eerie, shifting terrain of the title track and "The Lone Ranger," while Lindsay adds his transparent voice to "Steady, Girl," mixing Brazilian airiness with some edgy guitar notes. While the bands change, this is consistently Frisell, and he keeps finding new combinations and dimensions in his work. --Stuart Broomer

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Before We Were Born

Tracks: 8, Disk length: 47m 1s (-1m 59s)

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