Bill Frisell - The Willies

Title: The Willies Artist: Bill Frisell Release Date: 6/11/2002 Re-Released On: 0/0/2002 Label: Nonesuch Records UPCs: 075597965223, 755979652230, 075597990393 Genre: Folk Styles: Progressive Bluegrass, Modern Creative, New Acoustic, Bluegrass, Jazz Instrument, Guitar Jazz Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Cerebral, Freewheeling, Laid-Back/Mellow, Playful, Refined/Mannered, Reflective, Searching, Ambitious, Complex, Dramatic, Earnest, Elaborate, Hypnotic, Literate, Meandering, Passionate, Plaintive, Precious, Provocative, Sentimental, Sophisticated, Spacey, Stately, Uncompromising, Witty, Wry Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 2 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Sitting on Top of the World
2. Cluck Old Hen
3. Everybody Loves Everybody
4. I Want to Go Home
5. Single Girl, Married Girl
6. Get Along
7. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man
8. Sugar Baby
9. Blackberry Blossom
10. If I Could I Surely Would
11. Cluck Old Hen (Reprise)
12. Cold, Cold Heart
13. I Know You Care
14. Goodnight Irene
15. Big Shoe
16. The Willies

Year Type Label Catalog # 2008 CD Nonesuch Records 2002 CD Nonesuch Records 79652

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Echoing his 1995 release, Nashville, Bill Frisell's The Willies revisits the auburn sounds of American roots music. Although he has dipped into folk music in prior efforts, these songs follow the traditional mode even more faithfully than any of his previous releases, with only minor shifts into his familiar dissonant explorations. Assisted by Danny Barnes (Bad Livers) on banjo and guitar and bassist Keith Lowe (Fiona Apple, Wayne Horvitz & Zony Mash), Frisell's quirky tonalities and sweeping soundscapes still pervade each track, but the disquieting surges found on releases like The Bill Frisell Quartet and Gone, Just Like a Train are relatively reigned in. This in no way means that The Willies sounds anything like Hot Rize or New Grass Revival -- it is most certainly a Bill Frisell album; dark and mysterious, eerily beautiful, richly textured and layered -- just sort of a kinder, gentler Bill Frisell album. Highlights include the banjo-driven Carter Family standard "Single Girl, Married Girl" and the group's stark rendition of "Sugar Baby," a song usually associated with the similarly haunting Dock Boggs. Anyone familiar with the guitarist's style will understand his choices in recording these timeworn love songs and murder ballads, and traditional folk aficionados will be intrigued to hear their old favorites in this new environment. ~ Zac Johnson, All Music Guide

Name Credits Adam Muñoz Assistant Engineer Bill Frisell Cover Art, Guitar (Acoustic), Loops, Guitar (Electric) Danny Barnes Guitar (Electric), Organ (Pump), Guitar (Acoustic), Bass Harmonica, Banjo Greg Calbi Mastering Gwen Terpstra Design Keith Lowe Bass Lee Townsend Producer Michael Wilson Photography Tucker Martine Mixing Engineer, Engineer