Guitar Player

by Brooks Williams

Overview

With the death of John Fahey, Brooks Williams was well situated to take the mercurial maestro's place as the most idiosyncratic acoustic guitarist around. 2005's Guitar Player, however, is the first album on which Williams truly lets all of his influences and musical interests find free expression. Williams' first entirely instrumental album, Guitar Player is 16 tracks long, evenly split between originals and covers. It's not just the variety of sources tapped for these covers -- from Johann Sebastian Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" to Luiz Bonfa's "Gentle Rain," through a version of the Broadway standard "Some Other Time" that seems to take its cues from Bill Evans' contemplative take on the tune -- it's the way that Williams brings elements of classical music, bossa nova, the Great American Songbook, and modern jazz to his folk-based musical style no matter what he's playing. Though his style isn't as personal and inimitable as Fahey's, a tall order for any instrumentalist, Brooks Williams is well on his way to creating a similarly impressive body of work. ~ Stewart Mason

Product Details

Release Date:	06/21/2005
Label:	Solid Air Records
UPC:	0614145204928
Rank:	165299

Tracks

1. Bakerloo
2. Gentle Rain
3. Working Dog
4. The Bright Field
5. Jaguar
6. Happy Chappy
7. Some Other Time
8. The Drowsy Bee
9. Triangular Situations (Situa¿¿¿¿es Triangulares)
10. All That Is Gold
11. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
12. Aguinaldo Jibara
13. Far Away
14. In Christ There Is No East or West
15. South Hill
16. I Bid You Goodnight

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Brooks Williams   Primary Artist
Brook Williams   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Johann Sebastian Bach   Composer
Luiz Bonfa   Composer
Leonard Bernstein   Composer
Vasco Martins   Composer
Adolph Green   Composer
Gerry Putnam   Mixing,Engineer
Brook Williams   Arranger,Composer,Producer
James Jensen   Liner Notes,Executive Producer
Kevin Downey   Photography
Traditional   Composer
Betty Comden   Composer