Monday, June 30, 2008

Try a little tenderness

If you get the chance to see Bill Frisell in any group, you should. His trio played here last night. Frisell plays masterfully and beautifully. The group was one of those "telepathic" units equally playing together and contrasting each other when necessary. A review I read of Frisell said something like he is a rare person nowadays in that he is willing to approach music with tenderness and he unashamedly does. A great night of music.

Highlights:

Frisell playing "Baba Drame" by Malian guitarist Boubacar Traore.

For an encore, they played two Hank, Sr. classics for the Alabama crowd: "Lovesick Blues" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry."

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