Soulgrass

Soulgrass

ASIN: B00006ANGI

Track Listings

1. Downtown

2. I Want You Back

3. She Believes

4. Help

5. You Didn't Come Home

6. A Cold Wind Blows

7. You Call This Love

8. Gimme Some Lovin'

9. Love Please Come Home

10. Believe In You

11. Stay With Me

12. I Can't Stop The Rain

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Soulgrass is a progressive bluegrass group based out of south central Kentucky. The group consists of lead vocalist Debbie Heavers who also plays bass and acoustic guitar; David Foster on vocals, acoustic guitar and bass, and grammy award winning dobro player Curtis Burch (also an original member of the band New Grass Revival).

Product Description
Progressive bluegrass music - sort of like New Grass Revival (and we have Curtis Burch - one of NGR's founding members) with a female vocalist.

Soulgrass,Soulgrass,Soulgrass,Progressive R&B flavored bluegrass. If you like New Grass Revival - you'll love Soulgrass.

Average customer rating:

Don't blame the artist for your ignorance.

Since no one else has actually reviewed the CD...

For Amazon

There's Bill Evans, and Then There's Bill Evans

Soulgrass
Bill Evans
Manufacturer: Bhm Productions
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000A3I47I
Release Date: 2006-08-29

Tracks:

Soulgrass
Home On The Hill
Eyes Of A Child
Small Town Jack
Weekend Cowboy
Snap Dragon
Celtic Junction
Shenandoah
Arthur Ave
Jean Pierre

Album Description

Former Miles Davis sideman Evans steps into an adventurous territory on 'Soulgrass', blending jazz, funk and bluegrass into a seamless and wholly unique hybrid of quintessentially American styles. Joining the great saxophonist on this pioneering effort, which was recorded entirely in Nashville, are the legendary Bela Fleck, Victor Wooten, Vinnie colaiuta, Mark Egan, Bruce Hornsby, Clifford Carter, Dave Kikoski, David Charles and John Scofield. Album was nominated in 2006 for a Grammy in the "Best Contemporary Jazz Album" Category!

Customer Reviews:

Don't blame the artist for your ignorance........2007-01-18

If you're too ignorant to know the difference between Bill Evans the piano player and Bill Evans the sax player, that's YOUR problem, not the artist's. The one-star review that is "for Amazon" illustrates your total lack of understanding of jazz; you should be ashamed for being so stupid. Bill Evans the sax player happens to be an outstanding musician who has been making great music for decades. Bill Evans the piano player was also a great musician. Why disparage the sax player because YOU can't keep the two straight? Seriously, you all come off sounding like dopes.

Since no one else has actually reviewed the CD..........2006-12-05

I bought this CD as an international import before it was released to the US, so it was fairly expensive. I can say that it was easily worth every penny, and the CD has been in my car's CD changer since. I was originally intrigued by the Bela Fleck connection (I own a wide variety of Bela's CDs, both with and without the Flecktones), but found the musicianship on this album to be as outstanding as any Flecktone CD. While not groundbreaking, Evans' sax work is extremely solid, and he's surrounded himself with a wide variery of outstanding musicians. Any track that features Evans, Bela, Vic Wooten and Vinnie Colaiuta, such as "Snapdragon", is a near-automatic favorite, but I wasn't let down by any track on the CD.

Right before the CD originally came out, they did an 8-show run at Yoshi's jazz club in Oakland, CA with Evans, Bela, Vinnie, Jimmy Haslip on bass and Darol Anger on violin. I knew it would be a rare chance to catch Bela at what is probably my favorite venue in the world, so I went to both the first and last shows of the run. The first time, they were clearly still learning material--sheet music was out and the level of exploration was a little bit less than what I was expecting--which is perhaps to be naturally expected given that these five have not played with each other often (at least publicly or in the studio). The second time, the sheet music was generally gone and the show is firmly fixed in my mind as one of the best I have ever seen.

For Amazon .......2006-10-30

I got the note of this "new" album by Bill Evans by way of purchasing "Explorations". A wonderful record by the PIANO player Bill Evans and his trio. This record by the SAX player Bill Evans I have no problem with, the 1 rating is for Amazon. They should screen a bit more carefully. They really should change their ad, even though, in a strange way it is accurate. Ads I think should sometimes be educational. Some could be mislead.

There's Bill Evans, and Then There's Bill Evans.......2006-10-26

(I haven't listened to this CD, so please disregard my rating.)

Note that there were _two_ Bill Evanses who played with Miles Davis -- in fact, all of the albums in Amazon's "Customers who bought items like this also bought" list are by the _other_ Bill Evans, the great pianist who died in 1980 and who was integrally involved in the creation of Davis's classic 1959 album, Kind of Blue.

This one here is the saxophonist who first joined Miles in the 1980s. Sax Davis plays on four Miles albums -- The Man With The Horn (1981), We Want Miles (1982), Star People (1983), and Decoy (1984). Impressive, but hardly Kind of Blue.

Average customer rating:

Soulful bluegrass with feeling and expression

Soulgrass

Manufacturer: Soulgrass
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Country | Styles | Music

General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music

General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00006ANGI
Release Date: 2002-06-24

Tracks:

Downtown
I Want You Back
She Believes
Help
You Didn't Come Home
A Cold Wind Blows
You Call This Love
Gimme Some Lovin'
Love Please Come Home
Believe In You
Stay With Me
I Can't Stop The Rain

Album Description

Progressive bluegrass music - sort of like New Grass Revival (and we have Curtis Burch - one of NGR's founding members) with a female vocalist.

Customer Reviews:

Soulful bluegrass with feeling and expression.......2002-07-29

Soulgrass, a band formed in the spring of 2001 which calls south central Kentucky home, has taken an approach to their contemporary bluegrass that combines elements of soul, R&B, rock, country, and folk. The group is Debbie Heavers (bass, guitar, vocals), David Foster (guitar, bass, vocals), Curtis Burch (dobro, bass), Joe Larson (banjo, harmonica, vocals), and Joel Whittinghill (fiddle, mandolin). Bill Verheide plays the spoons on "Gimme Some Lovin'." The covers on this album range from Leon Jackson's "Love Please Come Home" to "Downtown" (remember the song that won Petula Clark a Grammy in 1964) to a Jackson 5 tune (I Want You Back), some Beatles (Help), and one originally recorded by the Spencer Davis Group (Gimme Some Lovin'). The seven original numbers written by Debbie Heavers that fill out Soulgrass' debut album clearly show that Heavers is a prolific singer-songwriter. Her songs about relationships have a strong country feel, and "Stay With Me" rocks. Soulgrass succeeds by presenting their brand of bluegrass with strong feeling, emotion and expression.
---Joe Ross, moderator/reviewer, Nwbluegrass

Average customer rating:

SOULGRASS

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000E17HBU

Product Description

10 tracks, feat. Bela Fleck.

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