Good Dog, Happy Man

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The live-simple equation reached in the title of Good Dog, Happy Man might lull the listener into believing that Bill Frisell's continuing vamp on his Nashville band is reaching for the quaintest sounds possible. But in truth, this mellow-opening recording is as reaching and full of yearning as any of the guitar great's other releases. He draws in the full-on bluegrass sound of Nashville with the more rock-hard crunch of that redoubtable effort's successor, Gone, Just Like a Train, which debuted longtime session drummer Jim Keltner as an ideal foil for Frisell's squishy guitar end runs around flashiness. Keltner's back on board, as is bassist Viktor Krauss (who began his Frisellian foray on Nashville), but the band has grown to include Wayne Horvitz on Hammond B-3 for several steamy tracks, Greg Leisz on steel guitar and mandolin, and Billy Cox on second six-string guitar. Frisell marks each tune with a uniquely decentered stamp, giving off a comfortable aura for new listeners and sneaking in gobs of weird twists and phrases. In addition, he samples in layers of squiggles in spots, making Dog sound like an ageless pop gem as well as the boundary-busting bounty that it is. --Andrew Bartlett

From Jazziz
Guitarist Bill Frisell has bent the rules of jazz guitar - or of any six-string tradition, for that matter - further than he could ever stretch an E string. His sonic identity has colored the work of a broad range of musicians during the past decade or so. And his own wide-ranging music has focused of late on themes that speak of distinctly American forms - not just jazz, but folk and country, too. Good Dog, Happy Man taps a well of Americana that many of Frisell's peers will continue to draw from - yet none will be able to duplicate his particular twang.

--- JAZZIZ Magazine Copyright © 2000, Milor Entertainment, Inc.

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Average customer rating: My favorite Frisell work Beautiful music incredibly well played It's not jazz...So What!! Bill Frisell Does It Again It's just there, man

Good Dog, Happy Man Bill Frisell Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Gone, Just Like a Train Ghost Town Blues Dream The Intercontinentals Unspeakable ASIN: B00000IXTW Release Date: 1999-05-18

Tracks:

1. Rain, Rain
2. Roscoe
3. Big Shoe
4. My Buffalo Girl
5. Shenandoah (For Johnny Smith)
6. Cadillac 1959
7. The Pioneers
8. Cold, Cold Ground
9. That Was Then
10. Monroe
11. Good Dog, Happy Man
12. Poem For Eva

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The live-simple equation reached in the title of Good Dog, Happy Man might lull the listener into believing that Bill Frisell's continuing vamp on his Nashville band is reaching for the quaintest sounds possible. But in truth, this mellow-opening recording is as reaching and full of yearning as any of the guitar great's other releases. He draws in the full-on bluegrass sound of Nashville with the more rock-hard crunch of that redoubtable effort's successor, Gone, Just Like a Train, which debuted longtime session drummer Jim Keltner as an ideal foil for Frisell's squishy guitar end runs around flashiness. Keltner's back on board, as is bassist Viktor Krauss (who began his Frisellian foray on Nashville), but the band has grown to include Wayne Horvitz on Hammond B-3 for several steamy tracks, Greg Leisz on steel guitar and mandolin, and Billy Cox on second six-string guitar. Frisell marks each tune with a uniquely decentered stamp, giving off a comfortable aura for new listeners and sneaking in gobs of weird twists and phrases. In addition, he samples in layers of squiggles in spots, making Dog sound like an ageless pop gem as well as the boundary-busting bounty that it is. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

My favorite Frisell work.......2006-07-03

I tend to think of Bill Frisell as a lost soul among studio guitarists. Much of his solo work is too ethereal or abstract to be pleasing to the untrained ear. This CD, however, is very grounded in solid melodies that can draw in any audience.

Beautiful music incredibly well played.......2006-01-27

Listening to this again this morning for the umpteenth time and in auditory ecstacy during my favorite track, "The Pioneers" - Leisz's pedal steel work is some of the most beautiful music I swear I've ever heard. The whole CD is a delight though. Can't recommend it more highly. Check out Nashville and Gone Just Like a Train as well. Frisell's a genius.

It's not jazz...So What!!.......2005-01-05

I had to post this in response to the knucklehead that posted the "this guy's is a charlatan" review below. I am not a huge Frisell fan by any means, but the guy definitely has his own style, which is a lot more than I can say for most 'jazz' guitarists, who all play the same cliched licks they learned from their teachers at Berklee, GIT, or wherever they went to 'jazz school', with the same old cliched 'jazz guitar' tone that they all use. I am a guitarist myself (20 years+). I love all kinds of guitar playing, including jazz guitar, but I HATE snobby jazz guitarists that think if it aint blowing lightning quick bop runs over complicated chord changes, then it aint jazz and it sucks. I think Miles disproved that years ago, thank God. It's not all about how many notes you can play, despite what some swell headed jazz guy may think.


Anyway, this is a nice atmospheric and laid back album. Delay, looping and subtle 'whammy bar' bends give Frisell's guitar an otherworldy sound, while acoustic instruments bring it back down to Earth. Is it jazz? No, so what???? It's heartfelt music, it's what comes out of Frisell's soul. He's not trying to make music to impress YOU, jazz guitar guy.

Sorry for the rant, but snobby musicians really tee me off...

Bill Frisell Does It Again.......2004-07-10

Bill Frisell continues to amaze me. I've been playing the guitar for 14 years, and it hasn't been until this last year that I've been getting into Bill's music. This isn't the first album I heard by Bill. The first album I heard by him was "Where In The World?" which was a little too weird for me, but I still enjoyed it. On this album he is totally the opposite. He plays with such melody and he's in such demand of his instrument that it makes you wonder "Why was Bill making music like that?" Although, his earlier albums from ECM are quite good (e.g. Rambler, Lookout for Hope), they don't really hold a candle to his later albums like this one and "The Intercontintenals." I think this is by far Bill's best album and I think anyone who likes the guitar should definitely check him out.

And for those jazz shredders out there who haven't heard him, don't expect to hear him play 20 notes at a time at light speed. That isn't what Bill Frisell does. His playing is more textural. He stays away from jazz cliches and what's happening now. I also think that he has the most unique guitar style I've ever heard.

Check out these albums along with "Good Dog, Happy Dog":

Rambler
Lookout for Hope
Where in the World?
Gone, Just Like A Train
The Intercontinentals

It's just there, man.......2004-01-21

An album sometimes just makes it 'there' man and when it does it joins that group of the hippest there is. This is one of those. Thelonius Monk has some sessions in that group, Steve Lacy does, obviously Miles, Wayne - you are righteous - Shorter. There are others too. Frisell might have others in that group as well, but here I am concerned with making sure you know that Good Dog Happy Man is there.

Average customer rating: Fine reissue of a classic set

Purcell: Theatre Music Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Purcell, Henry | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Purcell, Henry | Composers | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Hogwood, Christopher | ( H ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Purcell, Henry | M to P | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Odes | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Cantatas for Solo Countertenor Purcell: The Fairy Queen Purcell: Songs & Airs / Argenta, North, Boothby, Nicholson, Toll Monteverdi - Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi / Concerto Köln, Jacobs Lute Music, Vol. 2 ASIN: B0001Y4JHA Release Date: 2004-10-12

Customer Reviews:

Fine reissue of a classic set.......2006-05-24

Think about the stupidest, most formulaic Hollywood movies you can think of: cheesy action pictures, fluffy, unfunny comedies, big but stiff epics. Now imagine that one of the greatest living composers was working in Hollywood, turning out astonishing, hauntingly beautiful and stirring musical scores for these throwaway movies. That's what you get with this set: music Henry Purcell composed for some two dozen often utterly forgettable plays (trust me--I've read a number of them!) Occasionally, when he teams up with a playwright worthy of his stature, such as John Dryden, Aphra Behn, or William Congreve, the results are even better, but for the most part you can enjoy the music here without knowing anything about the original plays.

This set originally appeared as separate LPs in the 70s and 80s, and has been long out of print. That's a pity, since Purcell spent a good deal of his short professional life in the theatre, either writing the incidental music contained on these CDs, or the music for his larger works, the semi-operas (King Arthur, The Fairy Queen, and the like). Almost all of these works are enjoyable gems; certainly, they represent a pinnacle of English 17th century music. Purcell had a genius for spinning musical gold out of the most leaden lyrics (check out his Odes and Welcome Songs on Hyperion if you don't believe me), and he does the same with the song texts in these plays.

Hogwood and the AAM offer clean, listenable performances, and the sound on these old analog discs has been cleaned up and brightened--although they were pretty good, even in the late 70s. As with most Hogwood, emotional extremes are kept to a minimum, so the "otherworldly" nature of late 17th century music, so often emphasised in more recent Baroque performances, doesn't come across here. It would be interesting to see what a group like The King's Consort would do with this music, but this set fills the major gap in the Purcell canon quite nicely.

My only beef with the reissue, as with many reissues, is that the liner notes are rather thin for a 6-cd set--the lyrics to the songs, for example, are especially missed. Still, it's a worthwhile set, and a must for fans of Purcell, English Baroque music, or anyone who just wants to experience a taste of the last days of the Restoration stage.

Average customer rating: it wasn't very good... TERRIBLE! David Hess is NOT on this CD! Awesom Stuff

Cabin Fever Angelo Badalamenti , and Nathan Barr Manufacturer: La-La Land Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000C3ICN Release Date: 2003-09-16

Tracks:

1. Squirrels - Cabin Fever: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2. Sh*tstorm - Your Mom
3. 'Lit Him On Fire' - Cabin Fever: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
4. Wastin' Time - Scrappy Hamilton
5. Party - Cabin Fever: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
6. Walkin', Workin', Lovin', Laughin' - The Turtlenecks
7. Main Title/Infectious Dog
8. Dennis Bites
9. Lemonade
10. The Nougat?
11. Paul And Karen/Good Kisser - Angelo Badalamenti
12. Burn The Hermit
13. What To Do
14. Karen Sips/The Hog Lady
15. Deputy Winston - Angelo Badalamenti
16. Red Love/Virus Check - Angelo Badalamenti
17. Karen Falls Apart
18. Marcy & Paul Screw
19. Pancakes/Runnin' From Rednecks
20. The Reservoir/Leg Shaving
21. Die, Redneck Die
22. Grim's Cave
23. Party Crasher
24. The Party Ain't Over
25. Jeff Makes It
26. Comin To A Town Near You
27. 'I Made It' - Cabin Fever: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
28. Swing Low - Happy Wednesday
29. Faced - Cabin Fever: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
30. Bonus Tracks: 'Hermit's Lair' - Angelo Badalamenti
31. Bonus Tracks: Hunting With Bert - Angelo Badalamenti
32. Bonus Tracks: Red Love (Extended) - Angelo Badalamenti

Customer Reviews:

it wasn't very good..........2005-05-14

I personally didn't like it, just my opinion. I don't usually buy soundtracks but the music on this one wasn't very good!

TERRIBLE!.......2005-05-14

OMG, this is really not a very good CD... why would you want to buy a soundtrack for a horror movie anyway? and listen to people talk on it... honestly! It's really a pointless CD and a waste of money!

David Hess is NOT on this CD!.......2005-01-28

A search for David Hess turned up this CD, which he is NOT on. David contributed SIX songs to the Cabin Fever Soundtrack, including the closing credits. Do not buy this CD if you are expecting to hear David Hess music from the film, those songs are available separately from David Hess at his own .com

Awesom Stuff.......2003-09-19

The Cabin Fever soundtrack captures all the fun and insanity that makes the movie such a riot to watch. The soundtrack features a few cool songs from the movie (The Turtleneck's song is hilarious) as well as some well placed dialogue cuts, but for the most part this soundtrack is a show piece for Nathan Barr and Angeleo Badalamenti. Nathan's tracks are great mood pieces that work great with the film and would make great Holloween music if you need some for a haunted house. As far as Angelo's work goes...it's awesome. His stuff is more subtle than Nathan's work and its adds a nice contrast to the other tracks. Some tracks feel like they came straight out of Twin Peaks. Great stuff! I highly recommend this soundtrack!!

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Good Dog, Happy Man Bill Frisell ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000563S9

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