• The legendary Bill Frisell plays familiar tunes his way

    The legendary Bill Frisell plays familiar tunes his way
    The song opens simply enough, with mildly sonic-looping, electronic pings reminiscent of raindrops on a metallic roof. The music presents as a mystery, a harbinger of something to come but no indication of what. Then the transition begins, a gentle segue into the recognizable notes of the folk standard “Shenandoah.” This is a song performed thousands of times by dozens of artists, but in the hands and fingers of renowned jazz guitarist Bill Frisell it is imbued with both its tr

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