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Is That You

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Released
  
1990

Genre
  
Downtown music

Label
  
Elektra Nonesuch

Recorded
  
August, 1989

Length
  
49:33

Studio
  
Ironwood Studios, Seattle

Is That You? is the second album by Bill Frisell to be released on the Elektra Nonesuch label. It was released in 1990 and features performances by Frisell, Wayne Horvitz and Joey Baron who were also members of Naked City.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick awarded the album 3 stars stating "Is That You? finds the guitarist already trending away from that band's scattershot assault and toward the more pastoral leanings he would embrace in the upcoming decade".

Track listing

All compositions by Bill Frisell except as indicated.

  1. "No Man's Land" - 6:40
  2. "Someone in My Backyard" - 2:45
  3. "Rag" - 4:00
  4. "Is That You?" - 6:50
  5. "The Way Home" - 6:00
  6. "Twenty Years" - 2:43
  7. "Chain of Fools" (Covay) - 3:30
  8. "Hello Nellie" - 4:07
  9. "The Days of Wine and Roses" (Mancini, Mercer) - 3:35
  10. "Yuba City" (Horvitz)- 5:42
  11. "Half a Million" - 4:00
  12. "Hope and Fear" - 1:06

Personnel

  • Bill Frisell: electric and acoustic guitars, bass, banjo, ukulele, clarinet
  • Wayne Horvitz: keyboards, drum programming, momentary bass
  • Joey Baron: drums
  • Dave Hofstra: tuba on 4 & 8, bass on 7

    • References

    Is That You? Wikipedia
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