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The Goat Rodeo Sessions in Bloomington, MN
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The Goat Rodeo Sessions in Bloomington, MN
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The last time cellist
Yo-Yo Ma
teamed with bassist
Edgar Meyer
and mandolin player
Chris Thile
(of
Nickel Creek
and
Punch Brothers
fame) for a classical/bluegrass hybrid, the result was the gold-selling
Songs of Joy & Peace
. Here,
Ma
,
Meyer
, and
Thile
are joined by fiddler
Stuart Duncan
in a different kind of string quartet. The slang phrase "goat rodeo," according the Urban Dictionary, "is about the most polite term used by aviation people (and others in higher risk situations) to describe a scenario that requires about 100 things to go right at once if you intend to walk away from it." That may be overstating the case for a group of musicians most of whom have worked together and succeeded before, but it also carries a rural connotation that is appropriate for music that is, for the most part, closer to bluegrass than classical. The tunes were written by
Duncan
's role is largely supportive. After the fast pieces "Attaboy" and "Quarter Chicken Dark," "Helping Hand" is the first slower number, with
switching to guitar and
taking over the mandolin for a musical conversation between the two instruments. "Where's My Bow?" is a violin/cello/bass trio with
sitting out, and it is one of the few tracks that leans more toward the classical side, boasting a big, dramatic finish. The more exotic "Here and Heaven" finds both
at times playing the Renaissance instrument the gamba, as
picks up a fretless banjo, all of them backing a vocal duet between
Aoife O'Donovan
of
Crooked Still
.
moves to piano for the slow, thoughtful "Franz and the Eagle," another piece that has more of a classical bent. The rest of the album is in a progressive bluegrass mode, "Less Is Moi" mixing several short themes and allowing room for improvisation, and "13:8" taken quickly, with
interacting briskly. It doesn't really seem as if 100 things had to go right for
The Goat Rodeo Sessions
to work; it only required four or five talented musicians to play and sing in sympathetic unity, and that they did, making this a satisfying experience for more adventurous classical and bluegrass fans. ~ William Ruhlmann
Yo-Yo Ma
teamed with bassist
Edgar Meyer
and mandolin player
Chris Thile
(of
Nickel Creek
and
Punch Brothers
fame) for a classical/bluegrass hybrid, the result was the gold-selling
Songs of Joy & Peace
. Here,
Ma
,
Meyer
, and
Thile
are joined by fiddler
Stuart Duncan
in a different kind of string quartet. The slang phrase "goat rodeo," according the Urban Dictionary, "is about the most polite term used by aviation people (and others in higher risk situations) to describe a scenario that requires about 100 things to go right at once if you intend to walk away from it." That may be overstating the case for a group of musicians most of whom have worked together and succeeded before, but it also carries a rural connotation that is appropriate for music that is, for the most part, closer to bluegrass than classical. The tunes were written by
Duncan
's role is largely supportive. After the fast pieces "Attaboy" and "Quarter Chicken Dark," "Helping Hand" is the first slower number, with
switching to guitar and
taking over the mandolin for a musical conversation between the two instruments. "Where's My Bow?" is a violin/cello/bass trio with
sitting out, and it is one of the few tracks that leans more toward the classical side, boasting a big, dramatic finish. The more exotic "Here and Heaven" finds both
at times playing the Renaissance instrument the gamba, as
picks up a fretless banjo, all of them backing a vocal duet between
Aoife O'Donovan
of
Crooked Still
.
moves to piano for the slow, thoughtful "Franz and the Eagle," another piece that has more of a classical bent. The rest of the album is in a progressive bluegrass mode, "Less Is Moi" mixing several short themes and allowing room for improvisation, and "13:8" taken quickly, with
interacting briskly. It doesn't really seem as if 100 things had to go right for
The Goat Rodeo Sessions
to work; it only required four or five talented musicians to play and sing in sympathetic unity, and that they did, making this a satisfying experience for more adventurous classical and bluegrass fans. ~ William Ruhlmann
The last time cellist
Yo-Yo Ma
teamed with bassist
Edgar Meyer
and mandolin player
Chris Thile
(of
Nickel Creek
and
Punch Brothers
fame) for a classical/bluegrass hybrid, the result was the gold-selling
Songs of Joy & Peace
. Here,
Ma
,
Meyer
, and
Thile
are joined by fiddler
Stuart Duncan
in a different kind of string quartet. The slang phrase "goat rodeo," according the Urban Dictionary, "is about the most polite term used by aviation people (and others in higher risk situations) to describe a scenario that requires about 100 things to go right at once if you intend to walk away from it." That may be overstating the case for a group of musicians most of whom have worked together and succeeded before, but it also carries a rural connotation that is appropriate for music that is, for the most part, closer to bluegrass than classical. The tunes were written by
Duncan
's role is largely supportive. After the fast pieces "Attaboy" and "Quarter Chicken Dark," "Helping Hand" is the first slower number, with
switching to guitar and
taking over the mandolin for a musical conversation between the two instruments. "Where's My Bow?" is a violin/cello/bass trio with
sitting out, and it is one of the few tracks that leans more toward the classical side, boasting a big, dramatic finish. The more exotic "Here and Heaven" finds both
at times playing the Renaissance instrument the gamba, as
picks up a fretless banjo, all of them backing a vocal duet between
Aoife O'Donovan
of
Crooked Still
.
moves to piano for the slow, thoughtful "Franz and the Eagle," another piece that has more of a classical bent. The rest of the album is in a progressive bluegrass mode, "Less Is Moi" mixing several short themes and allowing room for improvisation, and "13:8" taken quickly, with
interacting briskly. It doesn't really seem as if 100 things had to go right for
The Goat Rodeo Sessions
to work; it only required four or five talented musicians to play and sing in sympathetic unity, and that they did, making this a satisfying experience for more adventurous classical and bluegrass fans. ~ William Ruhlmann
Yo-Yo Ma
teamed with bassist
Edgar Meyer
and mandolin player
Chris Thile
(of
Nickel Creek
and
Punch Brothers
fame) for a classical/bluegrass hybrid, the result was the gold-selling
Songs of Joy & Peace
. Here,
Ma
,
Meyer
, and
Thile
are joined by fiddler
Stuart Duncan
in a different kind of string quartet. The slang phrase "goat rodeo," according the Urban Dictionary, "is about the most polite term used by aviation people (and others in higher risk situations) to describe a scenario that requires about 100 things to go right at once if you intend to walk away from it." That may be overstating the case for a group of musicians most of whom have worked together and succeeded before, but it also carries a rural connotation that is appropriate for music that is, for the most part, closer to bluegrass than classical. The tunes were written by
Duncan
's role is largely supportive. After the fast pieces "Attaboy" and "Quarter Chicken Dark," "Helping Hand" is the first slower number, with
switching to guitar and
taking over the mandolin for a musical conversation between the two instruments. "Where's My Bow?" is a violin/cello/bass trio with
sitting out, and it is one of the few tracks that leans more toward the classical side, boasting a big, dramatic finish. The more exotic "Here and Heaven" finds both
at times playing the Renaissance instrument the gamba, as
picks up a fretless banjo, all of them backing a vocal duet between
Aoife O'Donovan
of
Crooked Still
.
moves to piano for the slow, thoughtful "Franz and the Eagle," another piece that has more of a classical bent. The rest of the album is in a progressive bluegrass mode, "Less Is Moi" mixing several short themes and allowing room for improvisation, and "13:8" taken quickly, with
interacting briskly. It doesn't really seem as if 100 things had to go right for
The Goat Rodeo Sessions
to work; it only required four or five talented musicians to play and sing in sympathetic unity, and that they did, making this a satisfying experience for more adventurous classical and bluegrass fans. ~ William Ruhlmann
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