Bill Frisell: America Lost and Found
Richard Gehr, Village Voice, 4 December 1994
Guitarist Bill Frisell is the cowlick on the towhead of American music. In his most signature mode, he favors a languorous, spacious sound that combines cool jazz craft with evocative country twang to suggest cumulus clouds drifting high above the Great Plains.
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