Far From Enough

The compositions, the musicians, the production, all produce a release that should be award-winning and yet defies catagorization. The blend of roots/americana, jazz sensibility, and Nashville hot create a complete sound, all new yet seemingly familiar, almost traditional.This is masterful, modern "fusion" that will appeal to both the musician who craves deep harmonic content and to the casual listener that just wants to relax and chill. The sum is greater than the parts and the parts (musicians) are incredible. Kind of like if you took the Paul Motian trio, the Nashville Cats, and Little Village and shook 'em all up in a box - but even better.

Great new find - awesome, talented performer.

There's never been an instrumental album (well, 90% anyway) on my "desert island" list, but this one is firmly planted there. Usually when I play a CD to death for a few months, it'll then go back on the shelf for awhile. This one never gets old. Great for driving (esp. "Tended"), relaxing as background music while you're working, superb for kicking back with the headphones on. I'm impatient for a second effort.

Great music, great musician.

AAA

How do you quantify great music. He goes wherever he feels but it seems to be a good space, at least to my taste. I have the Viktor Krauss II CD and loved it enough to try this one. Worked for me!

Very nice

THE BAND: Viktor Krauss (all things bass, electric piano, guitar), Bill Frisell (electric & acoustic guitars), Jerry Douglas (guitars, dobro, lap steel guitar, Weissenborn), Steve Jordan (drums, percussion, conga), and Alison Krauss (backing atmospheric vocals).THE DISC: (2004) Recorded at Sound Emporium and Brown Cloud in Nashville, TN. 12 songs clocking in at approximately 56 minutes. The disc comes with a 10-page booklet featuring songs (and the players on each song), song credits, band pictures and thank you's. Except for track 6 ("Big Log"), Krauss authored or co-authored all songs. Label - Nonesuch.COMMENTS: Bluesy, Jazzy, New Age... hard to classify. With that being said, I found this disc in the "Country/Western" section of the store. Great background music. Cerebral, hypnotic, dreamy, eccentric. This disc gets better with age - perhaps as I get older (?)... and I bet the young audience simply won't connect with what their ears are hearing. Mood pieces such as "Overcast" and "Side Street", as well as elements of hard rock in "Grit Lap", "Here To Me" and "Tended". Viktor Krauss is a master on all makes of bass guitar... period. Krauss has been instrumental (as a session musician) in helping other feature artists make their records - including Lyle Lovett, Bill Frisell, Michael McDonald, Steve Forbert, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Acoustic Alchemy, Jason White and sister Alison. It's about time he had his own release - and this one shines. "Far From Enough" is an instrumental album... containing only one gem-of-a-song with lyrics... a remake of Robert Plant's "Big Log" (Krauss is a big fan of Plant's and Led Zeppelin). He slows the "Big Log" down even more so and Allison's voice is simply devine here. Great disc. * Curious - my disc has a different photograph on the front cover... the same brown tinted black & white type photo, but it shows Krauss squatting down and leaning up against a garage... with an old VW Beetle on one side and a big bass in its case on the other (?).

hes happy, im happy, nuff said what can i say, i order cds mainly for my mate, as he has no internet!