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Bull Harman's CD Bull's-Eye announces its presence with authority from the first song, Fighting Irishman. This CD has some of the best instrumental work you will hear. Bull's-Eye is an instrumentally driven cd with only 5 of the 13 tracks being vocal numbers, although the vocal numbers do showcase such talent as Rhonda Vincent and Alison Krauss. Bull Harman's guitar playing is absolutely flawless. His phrasing is full of character and style and, of course, plenty of hot licks. My favorite cut on the CD is the last one. A guitar solo written by Bull Harman entitled "Another Time". It is beautiful. Mixing chordal style and melody, this instrumental makes me think of a quite contemplative late summer evening. There is a great version of Tennessee Flat-top box. It is really nice to hear Bull change styles completely to the strum and hammer-on style true to the original which is complemented by great 40s style vocals. This is quickly followed by the true-blue Bluegrass instrumental Shenandoah Breakdown. If you have a tendancy to move when you listen to Bluegrass, this will have you jumpin'. A point of note, this tune has a great bass fiddle break. "Gypsy Dream" is a very cool instrumental. It's like lonesome fiddle blues crossed with Flight of the bumble-bee with a really tight aggressive meandering head. "How I Long to be in the Mountains" is one of the best progressive bluegrass songs you will hear. This track is very much in the vein of Blue Highway or the Lonesome River Band, tight and perfect. I would highly recommend this CD to anyone looking for exquisite instrumental work, great arrangements as well as great engineering on the recording. I give this CD 4 1/2 picks. It really only loses the 1/2 pick because I would have liked to have heard more vocal numbers, but then you would have to lose some of the terrific instrumentals. Just buy it. . .you won't be sorry. For information on purchasing this CD goto http:www.bullharman.com. |