Disfarmer Explained

Disfarmer
Type:	Album
Artist:	Bill Frisell
Cover:	Disfarmer.jpg
Released:	July 21, 2009
Recorded:	February and May 2008
Studio:	Avast! (Seattle, Washington) Sound Emporium (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre:	Folk jazz New acoustic Americana
Length:	71:28
Label:	Elektra Nonesuch
Producer:	Lee Townsend
Prev Title:	History, Mystery
Prev Year:	2008
Next Title:	Beautiful Dreamers
Next Year:	2010

Disfarmer is the 21st album by Bill Frisell to be released on the Nonesuch label.^[1] It features music written to accompany a retrospective of photographs taken by Mike Disfarmer.

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".^[2]

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) – 3:10
8. "Little Girl" – 3:42
9. "Little Boy" – 1:16
10. "No One Gets In" – 2:47
11. "Lovesick Blues" (Cliff Friend, Irving Mills) – 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, Greg Leisz, Jenny Scheinman) – 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

Personnel

• Bill Frisell – guitars
• Greg Leisz – steel guitars, mandolin
• Jenny Scheinman – violin
• Viktor Krauss – bass

Notes and References

1. http://www.billfrisell.com/artists/Frisell/frisell_disfarmer.html Bill Frisell discography
2. Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed August 4, 2011.