VOL № C090 — November 2024
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Between the bookended Billys — one a legendary desperado, the other a lovelorn folk music fixture — Bill Frisell unravels and reweaves all manner of spangled banners across the continental vastness of Have a Little Faith. The guitarist’s most outright celebration of Americana in its various strains and strangenesses, Faith plays like a road trip up eastbound Route 66, invoking the gunfire and grandeur of Aaron Copland’s Wild West ballet, Billy The Kid, the tender curves of Dylan’s kiss-off, ‘’Just Like a Woman,'' and the distinguished discord of a lightning- storm rendering of Madonna’s ‘’Live to Tell.'' Marrying the moody atmospherics of his ECM recordings with the breakneck impressionism forged in his forays as a John Zorn co-conspirator, Frisell masterfully leads a deeply s...
LP 1 / Side A
| 1 Billy the Kid, the Open Prairie |
| 2 Billy the Kid, Street Scene in a Frontier Town |
| 3 Billy the Kid, Mexican Dance and Finale |
| 4 Billy the Kid, Prairie Night (Card Game at Night), Gun Battle |
| 5 Billy the Kid, Celebration After Billy’s Capture |
| 6 Billy the Kid, Billy in Prison |
| 7 Billy the Kid, the Open Prairie Again |
LP 1 / Side B
| 1 The Saint-Gaudens in Boston Common, Col. Shaw and His Colored Regiment |
| 2 (Excerpt #1) |
| 3 Just Like a Woman |
| 4 I Can’t Be Satisfied |
| 5 Live to Tell |
LP 2 / Side C
| 1 The Saint-Gaudens in Boston Common, Col. Shaw and His Colored Regiment |
| 2 (Excerpt #2) |
| 3 No Moe |
| 4 Washington Post March |
| 5 When I Fall in Love |
| 6 Little Jenny Dow |
| 7 Have a Little Faith in Me |
| 8 Billy Boy |
