The version here is elemental, with Frisell tuning up an electric guitar to the high, brittle whine of desert blues musicians and playing light filigrees as Royston lays down a slow, loping beat and Morgan adds simple chords in the spaces between Frisell’s notes. The trio open with a rendition of Malian musician Boubacar Traoré’s “Baba Drame,” a song that Frisell first covered on 2003’s The Intercontinentals. Given Frisell’s wide-ranging interests, getting two back-to-back albums in the same mode is relatively rare, though his new trio, including bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Rudy Royston, finds the guitarist changing up previously recorded originals and covers. The jazz legend’s indefatigable work ethic remains undimmed as he nears his 70th birthday, and his latest solo record, Valentine finds him once again in the folk and Americana orientation of his last LP, Harmony. Another year, another Bill Frisell album.
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