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Bluegrass Unlimited, CD Review >>
Listeners will travel back in time to the Jacksonian era of history with this music soundtrack from the PBS feature documentary, Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil And The Presidency. Composed largely by Christopher Hedge, this CD does what great music often does best. It creates a mood and emotions that words and pictures fall short of conveying.
David Grisman's skills on the mandolin (as in the cut "Frontier I") and the Grisman's Bluegrass Experience (Samson Grisman, bass; Jim Nunally, guitar; Chad Manning, fiddle; and Keith Little, banjo) are the ambassadors for bluegrass, representing the same aspect of Old Hickory's era. "It's so incredible to actually be playing the roots music, the music that gave birth to what we play all the time," Manning said in the studio while recording "Richard's Stomp." With that track, as well as "TimelessThe Hermitage," "Tennessee," and "The Eighth Of January," which opens with Little's artful playing on banjo, this music project gives the Appalachian sounds their just placement.
The CD is very well rounded out by R. Carolos Nakai who provides the Native American viewpoint through his spectacular performance on flute along with Joe Weed (fiddle) and David Brewer (bagpipes, penny whistle, Irish flute, and bodhrán) who enhance the Irish musical experience in American history. (That's That Prod., 4332 N. Canal St. #12, San Francisco, CA 94080, www.christopherhedge.com.)BC 01/03/09 >> go there
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