Wilson, Anthony / Frogtown
Album: Frogtown   Collection:General
Artist:Wilson, Anthony   Added:Dec 2016
Label:Goat Hill Recordings  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2016-12-21 Pull Date: 2017-02-22

Album Review
Tom McCarter
Reviewed 2016-12-17
Anthony Wilson / Frogtown
Label: Intuition

Tom McCarter
Reviewed: 2016-12-17

Tom McCarter
Anthony Wilson
Frogtown
Genre: General
Review; Despite the General reviewers kicking this back to my cube, this is NOT jazz! This is Diana Krall's guitarist expressing himself in other musical forms. It's all over the map, but I did enjoy it. There's very little of what I would call jazz here.Half are instrumentals, though.
FCCs: none
If You Like: (similar artists noted on tracks)
Favorite Tracks: 1/ She Won't Look Back 4/ Occhi Di Bambola 7/ The Cares of a Family Man 10/ The Geranium 12/ I Saw It Through The Skylight
Track Review: 1/ heavy chord start> slow tempo vocal (like Nick Cave)> slow fade 2/ guitar starts> slow tempo instrumental with horns (like Charlie Hunter)> quick fade 3/ sax starts> slow tempo jam morphs into slow song and fade 4/ guitar starts> polka in slow motion moves to midtempo> sudden end 5/rocking heavy guitar chords start> midtempo instrumental jam (sounds like a cross between Robert Fripp and Al Di Meola)> fade 6/ quiet guitar starts> slow song (like James Taylor)> fade 7/ guitar starts> uptempo instrumental> shifting time signatures> fade 8/ guitar starts> fast tempo instrumental> shifting time signatures> fade 9/ guitar starts> slow song (like James Taylor)> slow fade 10/ guitar starts> midtempo jazzy jam instrumental> slow fade 11/ percussion starts> uptempo song> quick end 12/ Guitar starts> uptempo song (like Jim Croce)> quick end 13/ guitar starts> slow instrumental jam> slow fade

Track Listing
1. She Won't Look Back   7. The Cares Of A Family Man
2. Frogtown   8. Mopeds
3. Your Footprints   9. Arcadia
4. Occhi Di Bambola   10. The Geranium
5. Silver And Flint   11. Shabby Bird
6. Our Affair   12. I Saw It Through The Skylight
  13. Downtown Abbey