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| A
Moment With You |
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| Dean
Cottrill |
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| It's
been a long time coming, but Dean Cottrill's new CD is finally at
hand, a rambling document of a checkered career as bluesman, sideman,
singer, songwriter, and of course guitarist. He dabbles in jazz
- in part the legacy of his student years - and seldom strays from
standard tuning, something of an anomaly considering his reputation
as a slide player. But the challenges of expressing a broad catalogue
of titles on six strings being what they are, Dean resolved the
need for some common thread or anchor in part by adhering to standard
tuning.Take for example the solo performance of Beiderbecke'sIn
A Mist, something of a testament to a relentless search for a definitive
style: It has been streamlined, modified and modernized to accomodate
the exacting standards of an artist in pursuit of perfection. But
this is only one facet of Cottrill's restless temperament. For the
most part, he has eeked out a subistance in the abstract environment
of cafes and nightclubs from coast to coast, first as sideman bassist
or guitarist in country bands and eventually as singer and frontman.
Necessity they say is the mother of invention, and in an effort
to break the cycle of bar-to-bar existence, Cottrill began putting
his own wry observations down on paper and in song. |
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