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Road Song
Rob Ickes
Road Song
Genres: Country, Folk, International Music, Pop
 
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Rob Ickes' fifth solo release is a boundary-breaking album with wondrous romps and intimate dobro-piano dialogues reaching into the emotional core of 10 great jazz standards. Pianist Michael Alvey's intricate bass lines an...  more »

     
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All Artists: Rob Ickes
Title: Road Song
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: ResoRevolution
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 7/21/2009
Genres: Country, Folk, International Music, Pop
Style: Bluegrass
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 884502053357

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Rob Ickes' fifth solo release is a boundary-breaking album with wondrous romps and intimate dobro-piano dialogues reaching into the emotional core of 10 great jazz standards. Pianist Michael Alvey's intricate bass lines and percussive right-hand chordal punctuations have the energy of a full ensemble; Ickes lays down melodies with precision before the duo launches into breathtaking improvisational rides. Robinella's perfectly empathetic vocals contribute a playful give-and-take with dobro and piano, partly inspired by the great Ella Fitzgerald-Louis Armstrong collaborations. The 10-time winner of the Dobro Player of the Year award (IBMA), Ickes isn't content with assumed boundaries of genre. Throughout his career, as a solo artist, sought-after sideman or founding member of the acclaimed ensembles Blue Highway and Three Ring Circle, his intuitive ability to tap into a song's emotional essence and offer something fresh has earned accolades and respect well beyond the Dobro's domain in country and bluegrass music.

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CD Reviews

Great Rob Ickes Dobro, as usual
Eklektikos | 08/13/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I have tons of steel and resonator music and I love all of it, even my own amateurish attempts.



I love all types of music, jazz being my least favorite.



Oh my! What have I done?



I've gotten an album, touted as a jazz album, just because it was a jazz excursion by Rob Ickes.



I got it as a pre-release a couple of months ago, and I can't stop playing it, it is so good, I am going to wear it out.



Rob, demonstrates his usual superb musicianship skills, with intricate melodic phrasing, major tonality, rhythmic syncopation and a little bluesy. Great music arranging, if this is jazz, I am sold.

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Really interesting CD
David G. King | Fairfield, CT USA | 12/22/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Off beat recording...Rob Ickes, well-known dobro virtuouso, takes on jazz standards accompanied on piano by Michael Alvey. I think the back story of the record is that Alvey is a music teacher in a Nashville school; they met when Ickes came to do a "show and tell" for one of his children.



While the instrumentation is novel, the playing is very fine and the duo have a great interplay. Ickes skill with the dobro is legendary and he is in good form here. The real surprise is Alvey's piano work, which holds everything together."