I hate Chris Thile.<\/p>\n
No, not his music; as we’re about to see, Chris Thile has hit
\nyet another musical home run with his latest CD,
\nNot All Who Wander Are Lost<\/i>. I hate him because he’s so
\ndamned
\n
\ngood<\/b>
\n<\/i> .<\/p>\n
I mean, come on. The guy’s not old enough to buy beer, and he
\nplays like this? This is the latest effort from a member of
\nbluegrass wunderkinder band Nickel Creek, and it’s a doozy. Thile’s
\nplaying is stylish, lyrical, precise, and elegant; he’s a true
\nmaster of the mandolin. He also has some of the strongest
\nsupporting players I’ve ever seen; Sean Watkins on guitar, Sara
\nWatkins on fiddle, Bela Fleck on banjo, and Jerry Douglas on dobro
\nis the kind of “backup band” that would make most bluegrass players
\n— not to mention fans — fall over in a dead faint. And did I
\nmention his producer is Alison Krauss?<\/p>\n
So, in midst of all this glory, how does
\nNot All Who Wander Are Lost<\/i> sound? Pretty damned good,
\nthanks. Thile calmly and elegantly turns out one of the strongest
\nCDs I’ve heard this year. From “Song For A Young Queen” through
\n“Riddles In The Dark” to “Laurie De’ Tullins”, this is simply a
\nbrilliant piece of acoustic traditional work. It’s not all
\nbluegrass, by any stretch of the imagination; Thile wanders off in
\nflights of fantasy and genre with things like “Club G.R.O.S.S.”
\nwith its lounge jazz saxophone and “Sinai To Canaan”‘s almost New
\nAge sounds. “You Deserve Flowers” is almost a straight contemporary
\ncountry instrumental, and “Big Sam Thompson” has an Applachian or
\ntraditional feel to it, similar to Dolly Parton’s recent work.
\nThile doesn’t neglect his roots, though; straight-ahead bluegrass
\nwork like “Eureka!” and “Bridal Veil Falls” show he can handle the
\nstandard forms of the genre just fine, thank you.<\/p>\n
In short,
\nNot All Who Wander Are Lost<\/i> is a great work. It cannot be
\nrecommended enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":26025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6657],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-37236","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-chris-thile","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37236"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37236"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}