Two Originals Of Jack Rose - Album

Jack Rose Has Been Going Places Lately And The Evidence Is All Over This Splendid Record. The Names Of Six Of Its Eight Tunes Refer To Places Some Easy To Find On A Map "Calais To Dover" Some Harder To Pin Down "Cross The North Fork". Another Brings Up The Journey We All Must Eventually Take "Flirtin With The Undertaker". The Guitarist Has Toured Like A Demon In The Year That Preceded This Recording And It Shows In The Best Possible Ways. Every Track Is A First Take And Each Radiates The Confidence Of A Man Who Knows He Can Just Sit Down And Nail It No Problem. Rose Has Never Sounded Better Some Credit Must Go To Engineer Mike Chaffin For An Exceptionally Bright And Present Recording Job But More Must Go To The Artist For The Clarity Strength And Purposefulness Of His Finger Picking. He Also Forges Ahead In His Material Sometimes By Turning Back The Clock. Working Backwards Is Part Of His MO .. Remember That He Recorded Crumbling Rock Acoustic Trance And Full-On Noise With Pelt For Half A Dozen Years Before He Laid Down His First Finger-Style Performances. Kensington Blues Includes A Couple Delightful Ragtime Tunes His First Compositions In That Ancient But Honorable Style. It Also Features Several Winding Quasi-Narrative Fantasias Pieces That Will Lose You In The Sheer Gorgeousness Of Their Sound Without Ever Really Getting Lost Go Ahead Try And Stay Rooted In This Time And Place Whilst Listening To "North Fork" Or "Cathedral Et Chartres" Forgive His French .. You'd Do The Same For Chic . If You Do You..Ve Got Some Serious Karmic Baggage Weighing Down Your Soul. "Now That I'm A Man Full Grown II" His Latest Indian-Style Slide Piece Picks Up Where Rose's Side Of The By The Fruits You Shall Know The Roots Compilation Left Off. It Accelerates Slowly Affording Plenty Of Time To Appreciate His Voluptuous Tone On The Lap Steel Before He Builds To A Thrilling Breakneck Climax And Elegant Denouement. Rose Also Travels To The Mountain. He..S Dedicated Music To John Fahey But Here He Finally Records One Of The Man..S Compositions. His Version Of "Sunflower River Blues" Sounds Regal Unflappable And Complete In The Way That Say Rose's Pleasant But Somewhat Hurried Cover Of Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground" On His First Album Was Not. Truly He Is A Man Full Grown And This Is One Of The Best Albums In Any Genre To Come Out In 2005. Bill Meyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discography Hung Far Low CD-R Ed. 10 Klang Industries 2001 Red Horse White Mule LP Ed. 500 Eclipse 2002 Dr. Ragtime CD-R Ed. 120 Tequila Sunrise 2002 Opium Musick LP Ed. 1000 Eclipse 2003 Two Originals Of... CD VHF USA / Beautiful Happiness UK 2004 Raag Manifestos CD Ed. 1000 VHF 2004 Raag Manifestos LP Ed. 1000 Eclipse 2004 Kensington Blues LP Ed. 500 Tequila Sunrise Summer 2005 Kensington Blues CD VHF USA August 2005 Kensington Blues CD Beautiful Happiness UK September 2005 Dr Ragtime-Buckdancer's Choice/Dark Was The Night 7" Sacred Harp Library Ed. 500 2005 Dr Ragtime-Alap/Flirtin' With The Undertaker 78 Life Is Hard Ed. 6 2005 Untitled Part 1/part 2 7" Tequila Sunrise Ed. 500 2006 S/T-CD Archive Ed. 1000 2006 S/T-LP TEQUILA SUNRISE ED. 1000 2007 SILVESTER ANGFANG/JACK ROSE SPLIT 7" Funeral Folk 2007 KENSINGTON BLUES LP REISSUE Vhf 2008 DR RAGTIME AND PALS/S/T DBL CD TEQUILA SUNRISE AND BEAUTIFUL HAPPINESS 2008 I DO PLAY ROCK AND ROLL CD/LP 3LOBED Ed 100 2008 DR RAGTIME AND PALS LP TEQUILA SUNRISE Ed. 1000 2008 JACK ROSE AND THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS 7" Great Pop Supplement Ed. 500 read less