Good Dog, Happy Man

Infobox Album |
Name = Good Dog, Happy Man
Type = Album
Artist = Bill Frisell


Released = 1999
Recorded =
Genre = Avant-garde jazz
Downtown music
Length = 61:51
Label = Elektra Nonesuch
Producer = Lee Townsend
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:k9fpxqekldke link]
Last album = Gone, Just Like a Train
(1998)
This album = Good Dog, Happy Man
(1999)
Next album = Ghost Town
(2000)

"Good Dog, Happy Man" is the eleventh album by Bill Frisell to be released on the Elektra Nonesuch label. It was released in 1999 and features performances by Frisell, Greg Leisz, Wayne Horvitz Viktor Krauss and Jim Keltner with a guest appearance by Ry Cooder on guitar. [ [http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/good-dog-happy-man Nonesuch Records album info] accessed 12 September, 2008.]

Track listing

# "Rain, Rain" - 2:45
# "Roscoe" - 3:43
# "Big Shoe" - 3:49
# "My Buffalo Girl" - 8:50
# "Shenandoah" - for Johnny Smith (Traditional) - 6:09
# "Cadillac 1959" - 6:16
# "The Pioneers" - 5:16
# "Cold, Cold Ground" - 9:01
# "That Was Then" - 5:29
# "Monroe" - 4:19
# "Good Dog, Happy Man" - 2:33
# "Poem For Eva" - 3:41

:"All compositions by Bill Frisell except as indicated":*Recorded at O'Henry Sound Studios Burbank CA

Personnel

*Bill Frisell: electric and acoustic guitars, loops and music boxes
*Greg Leisz: pedal steel, Dobro, lap steel, Weissenborn, National steel guitar and mandolin
*Wayne Horvitz: organ, piano, samples
*Viktor Krauss: bass
*Jim Keltner: drums and percussion
*Ry Cooder (5): guitar

References