Roll My Blues Away

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Roll My Blues Away
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  1. Audio CD: Release Date 2009-06-26
  2. Publisher: Rounder
  3. Artist: Tony Furtado
  4. Sales Rank in Music: #52382

Product Review

From his previous recordings, you may be familiar with Tony as a brilliant, young banjo player with a gifted technique. Adding slide guitar and resophonic instruments to his musical collage, Tony has captured a clarity of style reminiscent of Ry Cooder. Melodic, spacious, dynamic and full of life, this recording will mark Tony as a leader and definitive player for the next generation. With special guests: Mike Marshall, Todd Phillips, Brain, Kelly Joe Phelps, Stuart Duncan and Aaron Johnston.

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On Roll My Blues Away, Tony Furtado combines his bluegrass banjo past and his slide-guitar blues future with a haunting, spare elegance that marks this as a superior acoustic-instrumental. Like Fleck and Cooder, Furtado has learned that the liberation of acoustic music lies not in playing more notes faster but in playing fewer notes with more feeling. On this album's 10 original instrumentals and two traditional songs, the arrangements are stripped down to focus on the strong melodies. His guitar sounds weary but content on the lovely Tex-Mex ballad, "Song for Early"; his banjo evokes the prickly dissatisfaction of the slow blues, "Willow Tree"; he plays both guitar and banjo on the nervous, restless tune, "The Stark Raven." --Geoffrey Himes
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Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review
4.9 out of 5 stars (14 customer reviews)

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy It for a Friend!, August 19, 2002
Tom Erhardt (Salem, Oregon United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Roll My Blues Away (Audio CD)
This is an amazing recording. I've owned it for about two years and I still listen to it almost every week. I give it to friends and family for birthday and Christmas gifts. Unless you hate acoustic music, you will like this album. Tony excels at both slide guitar and banjo, and his guests (Kelly Jo Phelps, for instance) are a nice touch. I've seen Tony play live several times, and he never fails to thrill me with his bluesy, celtic, bluegrass-tinged, old timey, newfangled music.


7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating mix, March 1, 2002
William Adair - See all my reviews
This review is from: Roll My Blues Away (Audio CD)
Tony Furtado's "Roll My Blues Away" has become one of my favorite CDs, but for the life of me I can't tell you how it happened. He and his collaborators (Kelly Joe Phelps, Mike Marshall, Todd Phillips, Stuart Duncan, Aaron Johnston and an enigma known only as "Brain") don't just cross genres- they redefine them, and all with excellent taste. This music really grows on you.This CD isn't so much about blistering technique as it is about evocative melodies. The mood varies widely from joyful romps (Waterslide) to heavy blues (Ghost of Blind Willie Johnson), but all of the pieces fit together perfectly. In this case, the whole really is greater than the sum of its parts. Folks, finds like this don't come around every day.


4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The door opens, April 15, 2005
Stanley E. Mcphail III "Stan McPhail" (Atlanta) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roll My Blues Away (Audio CD)
Every once in a great while, as a fan of music, you are allowed the opportunity to watch someone grow as a musician. You attend the shows, buy the CDs and hope for the best. For Tony Furtado, an exceptionally gifted musician by anyone's standards, the breakthrough was "Roll My Blues Away."

Before this CD I had always considered Tony a Bluegrass player. While I enjoy Bluegrass, it can be somewhat limiting in its appeal. This is the CD, the MOMENT, in which Tony changed that perception. This CD is blues, jazz, country, blues-grass and way too much fun. This CD took Tony from Bluegrass to Americana, embracing many forms of American music and blending them all in a seamless flow of emotion and positive energy.

I smile every thime I think of this CD. I own three copies.. one for home, work and my car. The "Waterslide" and "Can you Hear the Rain?" are staples of the live Furtado performance. Every song is well recorded, clean, energetic and comfortable. The music...Read more

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