Bill Frisell is no stranger to the Listening Thread here, but many, many years ago I met this incredible upright bassist at The Birchmere Club in Alexandria, Virginia. His little sister had a pretty good career going as a singer and fiddle player already, but the world outside of mainstream bluegrass had yet to hear much of Alison. That would change very soon. Viktor Krauss though... that guy had
IT. And that sound, was what I wanted my bass playing to come across like. A short, but meaningful and substantive conversation later, I went home and switched to chromesteel strings, and started practicing 4 hours a night.
Driving to work this morning, I had grabbed
East/West off the top of the pile. It had slipped my mind until
"Grapevine" came growling out of the speakers on that 5:30 commute. What a monster player.
