2010 December 05 — Something Else! Reviews

Archive for December 5th, 2010

/ December 5, 2010 11:47 pm

Half Notes: Bill Frisell – Beautiful Dreamers (2010)

Back in the late 80s-early 90s, Frisell had a cellist by the name of Hank Roberts in his band. The combination and contrapuntal flow between the two helped define Frisell’s sound at the time, and he’s periodically returned to a light helping of strings throughout his career after that era. One of the string specialists he first turned to for [...]

/ December 5, 2010 6:00 am

Guilty pleasures: Rupert Holmes, “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” (1979)

by Nick DeRiso Mark, late last week, said he didn’t get the whole guilty-pleasure thing. Excuse me, as the ageless line in “Blazing Saddles” once went, while I whip this out: “Escape,” a Rubert Holmes tripe that includes the helpful addendum (as if any fool, ahem, who knows all the words, cough, could forget): The Pina Colada Song. I know. [...]

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