Regular listeners of NPR may have come to notice that the signature sound of Bill Frisell's guitar can often be heard between segments of the public radio programming. In a profile of the guitarist/composer on this weekend's All Things Considered, NPR suggests that the "evocative, powerful, and often moving" nature of Frisell's work makes it a natural fit, and his latest, Disfarmer, "is no exception."
Regular listeners of NPR may have come to notice that the signature sound of Bill Frisell's guitar can often be heard between segments of the public radio programming. Guy Raz, the weekend host of NPR's All Things Considered, suggests that the "evocative, powerful, and often moving" nature of Frisell's work makes it a natural fit in such transitions from one story to the next, so much so that "every time Bill Frisell releases a new album, he makes NPR directors very happy."
The guitarist/composer's latest Nonesuch release, Disfarmer, "is no exception," Raz says in a profile of Frisell on this weekend's All Things Considered. In it, Frisell discusses the music on the album and its inspiration: the late, cantankerous Arkansas photographer Mike Disfarmer, who captured his rural neighbors in haunting black-and-white imagery in the middle of the last century.
You can listen to the segment now, hear a few songs off the new album, and look through a photo gallery of Mike Disfarmer's work all on npr.org.
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