Catherine Maclellan - Church Bell Blues CD

FAIR & SQUARE's release was highly anticipated by John Prine fans, as the veteran singer/songwriter hadn't recorded an album of new songs in 10 years (the preceding IN SPITE OF OURSELVES was mostly cover tunes). Happily ...

Church Bell Blues CD music. The material is deep-roots folk with a strong Cajun flavor, and with top session players like mandolinist Sam Bush on board, the execution and playing is never less than flawless. Yet the arrangements and approach transcend any sort of genre ...

Church Bell Blues album. On June 28, 2006, at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles before a sold out crowd, these 2 great artists performed one of only a handful of U.S. concerts, before the release of their album All the Roadrunning. This set ...

Church Bell Blues songs. "Surprisingly good." "Lyrically and musically rich." "This disc never seems to leave my player." These are some of the ways Glenn Fink's all-original first release, Hot Stoves Burn, has been described by people who have heard it. Fans trying to ...

Church Bell Blues CD music. Fin Tan formed in 2002 to play traditional Irish music in southwest Ohio. Since then, they have established a reputation as a high-energy band, playing in a variety of bars and festivals in the midwest. Blending elements of traditional Irish ...

Church Bell Blues music CDs. Robbie Schaefer is a guitarist and singer/songwriter. He records and plays on his own as well as with the folk-pop band Eddie From Ohio. His favorite color is red. His favorite food is sushi. His favorite band, besides Eddie From ...

Church Bell Blues album. Singer-songwriter James Jeffrey-West plays a good honest acoustic blend of folk, blues, and fingerstyle guitar. With influences ranging from James Taylor to Ani Difranco, his deft guitar playing, honest songs, and rapport with his audience, always leave crowds eager for ...

Church Bell Blues music CDs. Chiaroscuro at once has the feeling of inevitability and a sense of randomness about it, as if it were meant to happen, yet it's such a long shot that it ever did. Towner, the guitarist of the jazz/world/new age outfit Oregon, is an American who celebrated his 70th birthday in the year of this album's release, 2010 -- it's his 22nd for ECM. Fresu is an Italian trumpeter, not quite 50, whose only previous ECM connection (among some 300 albums he's appeared on in all) came in 2007 when he worked with pianist/composer Carla Bley on her release The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu. Towner and Fresu actually met some 15 years earlier, but didn't commit to recording together until now. Good thing they did, because they've made an exhilarating, affecting recording rich with great sensitivity and vibrant colors. Towner's spare, translucent acoustic 12-string and baritone guitar, and Fresu's bold, meaty trumpet and flügelhorn complement each other exceptionally well, their tight-knit interactivity and radiant melodicism reminiscent of collaborations of much longer duration. Laid bare in typically flawless ECM fidelity, their urbane compositions (most by Towner alone, the last two with Fresu) and perceptive improvisations are more like quiet conversations than contests. Each musician allows the other ample space to investigate and develop ...

Disc two is a continuous in-the-mix compiled and mixed by Jazzy T.