Disfarmer

Disfarmer
Studio album by Bill Frisell
Released	July 21, 2009
Recorded	February-May 2008
Genre	jazz Americana
Length	71:28
Label	Elektra Nonesuch
Producer	Lee Townsend
Bill Frisell chronology
History, Mystery (2008) Disfarmer (2009) Beautiful Dreamers (2010)

Disfarmer is the twenty-first album by Bill Frisell to be released on the Nonesuch label.^[1] It features music written to accompany a retrospective of photographs taken by Mike Disfarmer.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "the players are all excellent, but nobody here, not even Frisell, shines. Still, it is a pleasant recording to listen to if not hang on to. It floats and hovers about the room as a peaceful backdrop. Disfarmer is to be taken as a soundtrack rather than as a Frisell album proper, and listened to as a series of sketches rather than as a fully assembled statement from the artist".^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Bill Frisell except as indicated

1. "Disfarmer Theme" - 5:37
2. "Lonely Man" - 1:15
3. "Lost, Night" - 1:50
4. "Farmer" - 1:03
5. "Focus" - 2:26
6. "Peter Miller's Discovery" - 4:43
7. "That's Alright, Mama" (Arthur Crudup) - 3:10
8. "Little Girl" - 3:42
9. "Little Boy" - 1:16
10. "No One Gets In" - 2:47
11. "Lovesick Blues" (Cliff Friend, Irving Mills) - 2:48
12. "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)" (Hank Williams" 3:50
13. "Shutter, Dream" (Bill Frisell, Viktor Krauss, Greg Leisz, Jenny Scheinman) - 4:26
14. "Exposed" - 2:12
15. "The Wizard" - 1:52
16. "Think" - 4:37
17. "Drink" - 4:29
18. "Play" - 1:32
19. "I Am Not a Farmer" - 3:36
20. "Small Town" - 1:00
21. "Arkansas Part 1" - 1:53
22. "Arkansas Part 2" - 2:19
23. "Arkansas Part 3" - 1:54
24. "Lost Again, Dark" - 2:06
25. "Natural Light" - 2:59
26. "Did You See Him?" - 2:06

• Recorded at Avast Studio, Seattle in February 2008 and Sound Emporium, Nashville in May, 2008

Personnel

• Bill Frisell – guitars
• Greg Leisz – steel guitars, mandolin
• Jenny Scheinman – violin
• Viktor Krauss – bass

References

1. ^ Bill Frisell discography accessed August 2, 2011
2. ^ ^{a b} Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed August 4, 2011.