This is a great jazz-rock fusion band with much talent and an incredible sense of timing. Heavy tendencies in controlled riffs and intricate melodies....much recommended.Boud Deun biography
Virginia based instrumental quartet with influences of MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA, with the guitar, bass, drums and violin format. the intricate tempo changes bring DIXIE DREGS right away to the experienced listener. The band has an excellent reputation when live on the stage. Blistering albums of instrumental progressive fusion evoking bands like KING CRIMSON and The DREGS. Recommended to Fusion fans!
Studio Album, released in 1998
Songs / Tracks Listing
1. Wateford (4:01)
2. Rails (3:01)
Churches
3. Belfast (2:07)
4. Saints (3:27)
5. Cotton's Sermon (1:53)
6. No River Deserves A King (1:10)
7. a) Ten Pence
b) Bridges (4:05)
8. A Terrible Accident (1:37)
9. a) Orlando
b) Jacks (3:01)
10. Burnsville (2:51)
11. The Last of a Southern Days (3:05)
12. A Famous Rabbit (2:44)
13. Lantern Effect (2:12)
14. Desperate Albert Sloop (1:44)
15. Train, Rain, Zero (2:14)
16. a) A Horseshoe Invasion
b) A Church In York (4:21)
17. Broken Spokes (4:45)
18. Two Words (5:50)
Total Time: 54:08
- Rocky Cancelose / drums
- Shawn Persinger / guitar
- Greg Hiser / violin
- Matt Eiland / bass
If you want to hear some real scrumptious violin with guitar, bass and drum interplay then you must pick this band's work up. "The Stolen Bicycle" marks their second and arguably most comprehensive work to date. This album is soaring and full of some absolutely tasty instrumental work outs. "The Stolen Bicycle" is actually a large number of smaller vignettes which get the opportunity to individually explore some new musical ground. This is a magical little album which demands much listening attention and is a real instrumental work of art. Greg Hiser's violin work is simply "exemplar" and when juxtaposed with Shawn Persinger's guitar offerings we are treated to a wild instrumental contrast. Overall songs are highly calibrated and well crafted with precision execution... Folks who like an electric "progressive jazz'fest" will need to own this recording... simply amazing!
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