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DANIEL BACHMAN – ” Won’t You Cross Over To That Other Shore “

Posted: June 9, 2016 in MUSIC
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This artfully crafted solo acoustic guitar with storytelling capabilities than belie the lack of lyrics, Won’t You Cross over to That Other Shore · Daniel Bachman For Fans of Jack Rose, William Tyler, John Fahey

Guitar savant Daniel Bachman’s seventh album, River, is a rippling suite of the tradition-spanning solo picking he’s honed since his teens. Inspired by the Rappahannock River in his native state of Virginia, it was recorded and mixed last year by Brian Haran (Vetiver, Hiss Golden Messenger, Megafaun) at Pinebox Recording in Bachman’s current home of Durham, North Carolina. “We did everything first take, pretty much,” he says in a warm, southern accent. “I was fresh off the road, so all that stuff was tight anyway.” Alongside his intricate, meditative combination of folk, psychedelia and blues are re-toolings of “Levee” by his hero Jack Rose and William Moore’s nearly 90-year-old “Old Country Rock.” The first proper studio experience for the frequent collaborator of Ryley Walker sounds like the satisfying results of 10 years of exhaustive practicing and year-round touring for half a decade. To replenish his powers for tension and release, Bachman has disappeared into the wild landscape that informs his work.

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He Says: “I own three [guitars] currently. I got a mid-Eighties Guild, an early Seventies Martin and a no-name lap guitar I bought in Nashville a couple years ago. I play electric every once in a while for fun. I’m not a total gearhead. I have what I have, and they serve their purpose. I’ve totally honed it in at this point — even down to the fingerpicks I use. It’s like finding that perfect pair of shoes and then you keep buying them forever. . . . I’ve got a setup in my house where I can sit down with a mic and run it into the computer, but when I do that by myself I get really frustrated. I’ll hate it. I’m not an aggressive person, but I’ll get super aggressive, throw my guitar and scream and stuff. [Working in a studio], you can’t act like a baby around other people. So you kinda gotta just go in and knock it out. Having someone else push the button, that’s the biggest difference.”

The 14-minute “Won’t You Cross Over to That Other Shore” provides plenty of drama through dynamic shifts, willful speed and the right alternate tuning.

DANIEL BACHMAN – ” Song For The Setting Sun II “

Posted: June 9, 2016 in MUSIC
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Daniel Bachman, Gage/Hammond/Corcoran Trio And Steuart Liebig

Daniel Bachman calls Durham, N.C., home now, but he grew up around the Rappahannock River in Fredericksburg. It’s a quiet town in Northern Virginia that still has a pharmacy with cheap sandwiches and milkshakes; but, as Bachman pointed out to us, it has more tattoo parlors than music stores these days. That’s not a judgment, just the way things are.The 25-year-old has been at the solo-guitar game since he was a teenager, befriending folks like the since-departed Jack Rose and slowly finding his own way into the music. That’s why it felt right to bring Bachman back to the area that inspired his seventh album River, a record surrounded by history, but guided by hands and a heart that know its bends and bumps.Bachman drove an hour east to Stratford Hall, home to four generations of the Lee family, which includes two signers of the Declaration of Independence; it’s also the birthplace of Robert E. Lee. Bachman knows it well, not only because his dad works there, but also because he can’t help but bury himself in history books about the region.The Great House. Overlooking the rolling hills of Virginia, Bachman plays a version of “Song For The Setting Sun II” in what was the performance space at Stratford Hall. The song leaps boldly around the sunlit, symmetrical room, bouncing off walls decorated with paintings of buxom women and men in powdered wigs.

“Song For The Setting Sun II”