The Rodeo Eroded
ASIN: B00006I07J
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Like good musical ramblers, the Tin Hat Trio traveled around the world on their first two albums, Memory Is an Elephant and Helium. Theirs was a tango that could fill classical music's archways. A jazz that melded continents. With The Rodeo Eroded, the San Francisco-based threesome heads home. Rob Burger's accordions, piano, and myriad acoustic keyboards, Carla Kihlstedt's violin and viola, and Mark Orton's twangy guitar and Dobro take the Rodeo on a Great American Music Tour. "Bill" opens the album with a bluesy, waltz-like slow jam that Kihlstedt violins through with long-stroked dramatic flair. From there, Rodeo has the feel of a great, cinematic drama. Drunken, percussive piano marks "Holiday Joel" before a woozy take on "Willow Weep for Me" emerges from the mist with Willie Nelson(!) emoting atop a sagebrush orchestral mesa. A horse clip-clops in the form of Orton's guitar on "The Last Cowboy," just as Morricone might have envisioned. There are great, wobbly chase scenes, circus tumbles, and a host of Americanisms that bounce in, kick it up, and split with a sonic impression of the desert's parched stretches and the boundless madness of a simply warped community dance. --Andrew Bartlett
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Third outing from San Francisco based group. Their musical potion blends tango, bluegrass, contemporary classical, and Eastern European folk traditions with an avant garde edge. Featuring Willie Nelson, Jonathan Fishman, & Billy Martin. 15 tracks. 2002.
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Like good musical ramblers, the Tin Hat Trio traveled around the world on their first two albums, Memory Is an Elephant and Helium. Theirs was a tango that could fill classical music's archways. A jazz that melded continents. With The Rodeo Eroded, the San Francisco-based threesome heads home. Rob Burger's accordions, piano, and myriad acoustic keyboards, Carla Kihlstedt's violin and viola, and Mark Orton's twangy guitar and Dobro take the Rodeo on a Great American Music Tour. "Bill" opens the album with a bluesy, waltz-like slow jam that Kihlstedt violins through with long-stroked dramatic flair. From there, Rodeo has the feel of a great, cinematic drama. Drunken, percussive piano marks "Holiday Joel" before a woozy take on "Willow Weep for Me" emerges from the mist with Willie Nelson(!) emoting atop a sagebrush orchestral mesa. A horse clip-clops in the form of Orton's guitar on "The Last Cowboy," just as Morricone might have envisioned. There are great, wobbly chase scenes, circus tumbles, and a host of Americanisms that bounce in, kick it up, and split with a sonic impression of the desert's parched stretches and the boundless madness of a simply warped community dance. --Andrew BartlettAlbum Description
Third outing from San Francisco based group. Their musical potion blends tango, bluegrass, contemporary classical, and Eastern European folk traditions with an avant garde edge. Featuring Willie Nelson, Jonathan Fishman, & Billy Martin. 15 tracks. 2002.Customer Reviews:
An instant favorite.......2007-02-08
Paris, Texas.......2004-05-31
Cowboy noir at its finest.
intelligent fun.......2004-02-17
BEAUTIFUL!!![.].......2003-05-01
They just keep getting better!.......2003-03-18
For 'The Rodeo Eroded', they've just gone all-out. There are guests wherever needed, overdubs wherever needed, the members of the trio play a wide variety of wonderful instruments, and the result is this, one of the most sublime albums I've heard in a long while.
The album opens with 'Bill', a beautiful dobro-driven waltz, no doubt a tribute to the great Bill Frisell (who has worked with and obviously inspired all three members). 'Holiday Joel' is a more frenetic discordant latin number, a strange feature for guest percussionist Billy Martin. 'Nickel Mountain' is one of the most haunting, beautiful pieces on the album, surprisingly one of the only times the Tin Hat Trio have coupled dobro with piano.
All of the three pieces mentioned above are by Mark Orton, who wrote and arranged most of the material on the album. There seems to be just that little bit more attention to detail than in his previous work - for example check out the final phrase of 'Bill' where he reharmonises each note to perfection; or his amazing orchestration of 'Willow Weep For Me' (featuring none other than Willie Nelson on vocals), adding clarinets, harp, cello, bass and drums to the Tin Hat Trio palette.
The other members' compositional skills should not go without mention. Rob Burger's 'Happy Hour' is an incredibly funky latin tune; and Carla Kihlstedt's 'Sweep' is one of the most beautiful and different pieces on the album.
If there's one criticism I have of 'The Rodeo Eroded', it's that there are a handful of tunes that don't go very far. The band's great sound tends to pull them through though. 'Fear Of The South' is nice enough but perhaps a bit pedestrian. Similar comment for 'Rubies, Pearls and Emeralds' and one or two others.
But that aside, basically the Tin Hat Trio is a brilliant ensemble and this is a brilliant album!
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