Bill Frisell - Gone, Just Like a Train [1998]

tracklist:

01. Blues for Los Angeles
02. Verona
03. Godson Song
04. Girl Asks Boy (Part 1)
05. Pleased to Meet You
06. Lookout For Hope
07. Nature's Symphony
08. Egg Radio
09. Ballroom
10. Girl Asks Boy (Part 2)
11. Sherlock Jr.
12. Gone, Just Like A Train
13. The Wife and Kid
14. Racoon Cat
15. Lonesome
16. More Blues for Los Angeles 

Review	

Drawing from all over the musical spectrum, Frisell selects drummer Jim Keltner (best known for his records with George Harrison, Eric Clapton and other rock stars) and bassist Viktor Krauss (a fixture in Lyle Lovett's country band), and comes up with an immensely likable, easy-grooving CD that defies one to put a label on it. 

If anything, Frisell leans toward a drawling country twang heavily indebted to Chet Atkins in his guitar work here, but there is a freewheeling jazz sensibility at work on every track. Keltner contributes the heavy rock element with his emphatic strokes, occasionally pushing Frisell in that direction on the title track and the lengthy "Lookout for Hope." 

Yet Keltner is also capable of surprising subtlety, and Krauss provides firm, unflashy underpinning. Above all, this is thoughtful, free-thinking, ear-friendly jamming that was recorded in bustling Burbank, CA. but sounds as if it was laid down in a relaxed cabin in the hills.