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Label: | Steamhammer Records |
| Released: | 2006.09.12 | |
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55:44 |
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| Category: | Pop/Rock | |
| Producer(s): | Peter Frampton | |
| Rating: | ********.. (8/10) | |
| Media type: | CD |
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| Web address: | www.frampton.com | |
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| Purchase date: | 2006.10.12 | |
| Price in €: | 14,99 | |
| S o n g s , T r a c k s |
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2006 CD A&M 7219
2006 CD SVP 97872
Product Description:
LEGENDARY ARTIST'S FIRST INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM FEATURES MEMBERS OF PEARL JAM, THE ROLLING STONES, AND THE SHADOWS, AS WELL AS WARREN HAYNES AND OTHERS. In a career full of accolades, Frampton is particularly proud of Fingerprints: "This has been the CD I've been waiting to make all my life. Every track has been a wonderful challenge, pushing me to raise my own bar again and again." With a stellar cast of players, Frampton traverses a diversity of material on Fingerprints, from American soul to Latin balladry and all-out rock tunes. To help bring his childhood musical dream to life, Frampton invited Rolling Stones Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman to play on "Cornerstones"; original Shadows members Hank Marvin and Brian Bennett to perform with him on "My Cup of Tea"; and Pearl Jam's Mike McCready and Matt Cameron join him for a cover of Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" and the original "Blowin' Smoke." Fingerprints also reveals Frampton's penchant for American roots music, especially on "Blooze," featuring Warren Haynes on slide guitar, and "Double Nickels" featuring Nashville virtuoso Paul Franklin on pedal steel. Frampton trades licks with British saxophone legend Courtney Pine on the blues rocker "Boot It Up." He and guitarist/co-producer Gordon Kennedy play harmonizing electric guitars on "Float," another album highlight. Another guitar virtuoso, John Jorgenson, joins Frampton on the Django Reinhardt-style "Souvenirs De Nos Phres." Fingerprints follows Frampton's critically acclaimed 2003 release, Now, which prompted The Washington Post to proclaim, "Frampton comes alive again." In another review, the BBC described Frampton's playing as "faultless throughout." The Associated Press said, "When it comes to fiery, guitar-drenched rock, Frampton delivers." The consistency of Frampton's playing was also affirmed when he earned a "Best Rock Instrumental Performance" Grammy nomination for Live in Detroit (2000). In 2001, Universal released the 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of the 1976 landmark Frampton Comes Alive, to much acclaim. The album remains one of the most successful live albums of all time and continues to influence generations of young artists.
You might think it's easy for a songwriter with a high degree of prowess and a distinctive guitar sound to make an all-instrumental CD. But on Fingerprints, Peter Frampton--who was a British teen sensation with the Herd, a hard rock hero with Humble Pie, and an international phenomenon with Frampton Comes Alive--proves it's more difficult than it looks. This is a roots album for Frampton, as he pays homage to many of his heroes and gets a few of them to play on the disc. The classic Rolling Stones rhythm section of Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts lay down the blues-rock groove of "Cornerstones," while guitarist Hank Marvin and drummer Brian Bennett from the Shadows, England's version of the Ventures, get the reverb sustain going for a twin-guitar slow-blues track called "My Cup of Tea." Frampton also brings in some relative youngsters with jazz saxophonist Courtney Pine, who plays some R&B honks on "Boot It Up," and Pearl Jam's Mike McCready and Matt Cameron. They drop in for an overly faithful cover of Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun," on which Frampton plays the vocal line with a fuzzed wah-wah guitar before singing the chorus through his TalkBox. Frampton has always been a sensitive guitarist, and you can hear that on tracks like "Float," where he orchestrates a delicate call-and-response with producer/guitarist Gordon Kennedy. But a lot of the album consists of riff-heavy grooves like "Blooze" that sound like polished jam sessions. It's probably not fair to draw comparisons with other axe-burners from the '60s, but Fingerprints is formulaic next to the electronica-infused wail of, say, Jeff Beck, on albums like Jeff. Where Frampton could have made a statement as a solo guitarist, he settled for genre exercises. It's a shame, because he sure can twang those strings.
John Diliberto - Amazon.com
Once dubbed "The Face of 1968" by the British music press, the one-time teen idol Peter Frampton has been a blues-rocker in Humble Pie, a platinum-selling '70s superstar, and a latter-day session guitarist for David Bowie. His 2006 album of instrumentals features a variety of British rock and jazz talent, including the saxophonist Courtney Pine, the seminal 1960s guitarist Hank Marvin, and the reunited Rolling Stones' rhythm section Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts, in a varied set that runs the gamut of contemporary musical styles, from Latin, blues, and R&B, to hard rock, funk, and Django Reinhardt-influenced jazz.
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