DIRTY BABY est une commande du producteur David Breskin au guitariste Nels Cline (du groupe Wilco), le même producteur qui avait commandé à Bill Frisell l'album RICHTER 858 [UF8494] en 2005.
L'album s'organise en deux parties et s'inspire, illustre de manière sonore, deux séries du peintre contemporain Ed Ruscha. La première partie (disque1) est une suite contrastée avec souci de narration illustrant l'histoire des Etats-Unis d'Amérique (arrivée des premiers colons, conquête de l'ouest etc). Le second disque reprend 33 morceaux courts (moins de 2min30 chacun) illustrant de manière autonome autant de peintures à l'abstraction linéaire-pointillés. Toutes les peintures sont reproduites dans les livrets qui accompagnent les enregistrements.
Projet très réussi dans lequel on ne rentre pas tout de suite et auquel il faut attribuer quelques écoutes. Très bon. A mettre en relation avec certains projets de John Zorn ou encore Bill Frisell.
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- Nels CLINE Guitare acoustique, Guitare, Percussion
- Bill BARRETT Chromatic Harmonica
- Jon BRION Piano électrique, Synthetiseur, Voix
- Jeremy DRAKE Guitare, Guitare acoustique, Banjo
- pp Ukulele
- Glenn TAYLOR Pedal steel guitar
- Devin HOFF Contrebasse, Guitare basse
- Scott AMENDOLA Drums, Percussion, Electronics
- Danny FRANKEL Percussion, Drums
- Ed RUSCHA Peintre
- Dan CLUCAS Trompette, Flûte
- Jeff GAUTHIER Violon
- Jessica CATRON Violoncelle
- Brad DUTZ Vibraphone, Xylophone, Percussion
- Alex CLINE Percussion
- 1 Part I
- 2 Part II
- 3 Part III
- 4 Part IV
- 5 Part V
- 6 Part VI
- 7 In god we trust
- 8 Hi there, my old friend
- 9 If I was you I'd do just like I tell you to do
- 10 Do as I say or...
- 11 No mercy
- 12 Do as told or suffer
- 13 Agree to our terms or prepare yourself for a blast furnace
- 14 Your a dead man
- 15 Hey, you want to sleep with the fishes?
- 16 A columbian necklace for you
- 17 Note we have already got rid of several like you (one was found in river just recently) )
- 18 Be cautious else we be bangin on you
- 19 You wont know when you wont know where you wont know who and you wont know why
- 20 It's payback time
- 21 I'm going to leave more notes and I'm going to kick more ass
- 22 You cross me I wanna see blood
- 23 I heard you moved to pahrump, Nevada (you cannot escape)
- 24 Little snitches like you end up in dumpsters all across town
- 25 I'll be getting out soon and I haven't forgotten your testimony put me in here
- 26 You talk you get killed
- 27 Do not let the information be known to any person or you die
- 28 Don't threaten me with your threats
- 29 I just might act ugly if you talk
- 30 When I'm released I'm smoking a straight line to you. Got me?
- 31 Want to get to know my boiling point?
- 32 You dirty rotten bitch
- 33 You will eat hot lead
- 34 I can't take it no more
- 35 I might just act ugly if you get up on that stand and say something unpleasant to my ears
- 36 I thought I told you that we won't stop
- 37 I will wipe you off the face of this earth
- 38 Give up the gold or give up your life
- 39 You and I are in disagreement
