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- Artist(s): Brad Mehldau
- Summary: The collaboration between Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau features both original songs as well as covers of songs originally performed by Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, David Rawlings and Gillian Welch.
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- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Genre(s): Progressive Bluegrass, Modern Creative, New Acoustic
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Feb 1, 2017There's a palpable sense of real listening, of generously shared creativity. Ultimately, it's that synergistic spark that makes Thile and Mehldau's collaboration sound less like a one-off experiment and more like the start of a lasting partnership.
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Feb 1, 2017[Thile’s] vocal style may verge on the eccentric, but it’s perfectly in tune, and it soon becomes obvious that he and Mehldau are well matched in their musicality.
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Feb 1, 2017The pair’s account of the constantly key-shifting, melodically roaming Daughter of Eve emphasise how much they prefer interesting challenges to the note-spraying country-funky party pieces their gifts could have made so easy for them.
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Feb 2, 2017It’s a record that is both loose and precise, as the two spend a lot of time listening and feeding off each other in the moment but have also clearly planned out a lot of the structure ahead of time.
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MojoFeb 1, 2017Mehldau sounds at home on folksy rambles like Tallahassee Junction while Thile imbues the jazz standard I Cover The Waterfront with a desolate tone, his plaintive vocals accompanied by suspenseful mandolin tremolos. [Feb 2017, p.90]
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