Bill Mize
Tender Explorations
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"Bill Mize...places the beauty of tone and composition above pyrotechnics... Don't get me wrong, Mize has chops to burn and all fingers are flying on the opening track, The Road Scholar It's just that he's so smooth that even with the material that is technically very challenging, the listener never sense that he's struggling with the instrument." So writes James Jenson in Fingerstye Guitar about guitarist Bill Mize's 1993 solo instrumental CD Tender Explorations. Bolstered by highlights such as the opening track "The Road Scholar" and the minor-key based "Miasma", fingerstyle lovers will find much to enjoy on this album. Renowned for his composition, tone and unique style, Mize's music is featured on the Grammy winning recording "Stellalua", as well as the Narada Records "Masters Of The Acoustic Guitar" CD and the Windham Hill "Guitar Sampler". Instrumental Guitar, total running time, 39:30
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'Boxwork'
Review Featured In Minor 7th, August, 2000
he double-entendre of the title "Boxwork" isn`t fully realized until you read the credits, wherein Will Brady dedicates this CD to his grandmother who worked in a box factory all her life. When I finally "got" it, the image of James Taylor`s heroine in his song "Millworker" subliminally registered with me as a poignant preamble to much of the mood wafting from this solo acoustic guitar recording. Will Brady says that he "went for feel, mood, adventure -- most of this is improvised". Hence, some of "Boxwork has the feel of John Fahey... rough, raw, spontaneous. Brady proves himself a capable country blues picker on Mississippi John Hurt`s "My Creole Belle", Brownie McGhee`s "Trouble in Mind", and the traditional "Blessed Be the Name". His fingerpicking on the latter tune is in fact reputed to halt Civil War battles (you`ll have to buy the CD to "get" that one...). This CD gets an "attaboy".
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