![]() ![]() ![]() The sixty-three guitars are one reason why Frisell lives on a quiet street in Brooklyn, with nary a night club in sight. The book is “ Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music,” by Philip Watson, and it’s the story of a man who has made music without stopping for more than forty years-in small-group jazz and chartless experimentalism and so-called Americana, and also as a guest artist alongside great pop singers-sounding like himself all the while. And it’s surprising that, in 2022, a living musician who doesn’t sing is the subject of a full-on biography. It’s surprising that Frisell, whose records are linked by the tone that he gets from his guitar-bright, lucid, at once warm and dry, like tea with more lemon than honey-should use so many different instruments to get it. Both parts of that sentence are surprising. ![]() Bill Frisell owns sixty-three guitars, according to his biographer. ![]()
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