Disfarmer is the twenty-first album by Bill Frisell

Bill Frisell

William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...

 to be released on the Nonesuch

Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Records.-Company history:Nonesuch was founded in 1964 by Jac Holzman to produce "fine records at the same price as a trade paperback", which would be half the price of a normal LP...

 label. It features music written to accompany a retrospective of photographs taken by Mike Disfarmer

Mike Disfarmer

Mike Disfarmer was an American photographer whose portraits of everyday people in rural Arkansas became regarded as art some years after his death....

.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "the players are all excellent, but nobody here, not even Frisell, shines. Still, it is a pleasant recording to listen to if not hang on to. It floats and hovers about the room as a peaceful backdrop. Disfarmer is to be taken as a soundtrack rather than as a Frisell album proper, and listened to as a series of sketches rather than as a fully assembled statement from the artist".

Track listing

All compositions by Bill Frisell except as indicated

1. "Disfarmer Theme" - 5:37
2. "Lonely Man" - 1:15
3. "Lost, Night" - 1:50
4. "Farmer" - 1:03
5. "Focus" - 2:26
6. "Peter Miller's Discovery" - 4:43
7. "That's Alright, Mama" (Arthur Crudup
   Arthur Crudup
   Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup was an American Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known outside blues circles for writing songs such as "That's All Right" , "My Baby Left Me" and "So Glad You're Mine", later covered by Elvis Presley and dozens of other artists.-Career:Arthur Crudup...
   
   ) - 3:10
8. "Little Girl" - 3:42
9. "Little Boy" - 1:16
10. "No One Gets In" - 2:47
11. "Lovesick Blues
    Lovesick Blues
    "Lovesick Blues" is a show tune written by composer Cliff Friend and co-lyricist & producer Irving Mills. It has become a pop standard and an even more popular country song since it helped make Hank Williams famous in the 1940s. Published through Tin Pan Alley in 1922, the song was first recorded...
    
    " (Cliff Friend
    Cliff Friend
    Cliff Friend was an accomplished songwriter and pianist. A member of Tin Pan Alley, Friend co-wrote several hits including "Lovesick Blues," "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down," also known as the theme song to the Looney Tunes cartoon series.-Early life:Friend was...
    
    , Irving Mills
    Irving Mills
    Irving Mills was a jazz music publisher, also known by the name of "Joe Primrose."Mills was born to Jewish parents in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919...
    
    ) - 2:48
12. "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)" (Hank Williams" 3:50
13. "Shutter, Dream" (Bill Frisell, Viktor Krauss
    Viktor Krauss
    Viktor Karl Krauss is a bassist.He has worked with Peter Rowan and Lyle Lovett, among other musicians.He is the brother of bluegrass musician Alison Krauss. He has played on some of his sister's albums, together with those of her dobro player, Jerry Douglas.-External links:*...
    
    , Greg Leisz
    Greg Leisz
    Greg Leisz is an American multi-instrumentalist, playing lap and pedal steel guitars, guitar, mandolin, and bass.- Biography :Leisz was influenced early on by the Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers, especially pedal steel player "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow...
    
    , Jenny Scheinman
    Jenny Scheinman
    Jenny Scheinman is an accomplished violinist. Renowned as a jazz violinist, she has credits with artists in many genres. She has collaborated and played with Linda Perry, Norah Jones, Nels Cline, Lou Reed, Ani Difranco, Bruce Cockburn, Aretha Franklin, Lucinda Williams, Bono, and Bill Frisell and...
    
    ) - 4:26
14. "Exposed" - 2:12
15. "The Wizard" - 1:52
16. "Think" - 4:37
17. "Drink" - 4:29
18. "Play" - 1:32
19. "I Am Not a Farmer" - 3:36
20. "Small Town" - 1:00
21. "Arkansas Part 1" - 1:53
22. "Arkansas Part 2" - 2:19
23. "Arkansas Part 3" - 1:54
24. "Lost Again, Dark" - 2:06
25. "Natural Light" - 2:59
26. "Did You See Him?" - 2:06
    • Recorded at Avast Studio, Seattle in February 2008 and Sound Emporium, Nashville in May, 2008

Personnel

• Bill Frisell
  Bill Frisell
  William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...
  
   – guitars
• Greg Leisz
  Greg Leisz
  Greg Leisz is an American multi-instrumentalist, playing lap and pedal steel guitars, guitar, mandolin, and bass.- Biography :Leisz was influenced early on by the Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers, especially pedal steel player "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow...
  
   – steel guitars, mandolin
• Jenny Scheinman
  Jenny Scheinman
  Jenny Scheinman is an accomplished violinist. Renowned as a jazz violinist, she has credits with artists in many genres. She has collaborated and played with Linda Perry, Norah Jones, Nels Cline, Lou Reed, Ani Difranco, Bruce Cockburn, Aretha Franklin, Lucinda Williams, Bono, and Bill Frisell and...
  
   – violin
• Viktor Krauss
  Viktor Krauss
  Viktor Karl Krauss is a bassist.He has worked with Peter Rowan and Lyle Lovett, among other musicians.He is the brother of bluegrass musician Alison Krauss. He has played on some of his sister's albums, together with those of her dobro player, Jerry Douglas.-External links:*...
  
  – bass