Description:	2CD set on Beautiful Happiness
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Solo Guitar
	Label:	Beautiful Happiness
	Price:	£12.49
	Availability:	Dispatched within 2-5 days (on average).

5
...according to our Phil on 27 February 2008.

From all accounts Jack Rose likes a beer. I don't know many people who don't to be honest but listening to his new album all I want to do is throw things in the air and get pissed. It's proper party time music. For some reason Jack's music is completely intellectualised by people. I'm not one of those people and in favour of being all smart and clever I'm gonna keep it extremely simple. His new album 'Dr Ragtime & Pals' is a pure pleasure from start to end. You don't need a thesaurus for this one. It's a right old hillbilly, bluegrass hoedown of a thing. Get some beers out, crack this on and soak in the vibes with are coated in pure 100% Americana (with juicy bits) . It's unusually quite varied for essentially an album of just guitar as it delves into the different paths of American archival music. It also features Micah Blue Smaldone who totally rules as well..... Fans of Fahey, Ry Cooder (Paris Texas era) will like this one... it's much less psychedelic than previous affairs but it's 2 discs will completely blow you away/off.... You may have already been blown away /off by the 2nd disc which came out on Archive sometime back.... now it's a freebie with this album. Cocking bargain.... 2 x CD for less than a tenner. Am off to the pub now..

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What their label says...

BRAND NEW ALBUM FROM JACK ROSE, AND DOUBLEPACKED WITH THE LONG SOLD OUT S/T RELEASE (ORIGINALLY A LIMITED RELEASE ON THE ARCHIVE RECORDINGS LABEL - GETTING ITS FIRST EUROPEAN AIRING). THE FIRST DISC "DR RAGTIME AND PALS" IS JACK DUETTING WITH THE LIKES OF GLENN JONES, MICAH SMALDONE, MIKE GANGLOFF, HARMONICA DAN, AND SEAN BOWLES; ITS ROSE REALLY DISPLAYING HIS FORMIDDABLE PROWESS AS A GUITAR PICKER, AND LAPSTEEL PLAYER WITH A FOIL TO PLAY ALONGSIDE. TRULY INSPIRING, SOME OF THE TRADITIONALS REWORKED HERE ELEVATE JACK TO A NEW HEIGHT. HIS PLAYING IS BETTER THAN EVER, JACK IS A CONSUMMATE PERFORMER, PERFECTIONST ALSO, THIS IS A MAJOR WORK FROM A BIG PALYER IN THE MODERN AMERICAN PRIMITIVE WORLD - OFT COMPARED TO THE LIKES OF FAHEY ETC, JACK ROSE IS A RARE TALENT. THE SELF TITLED SECOND DISC CONTAINS A COUPLE OF SOLO VERSIONS OF TRACKS FOR THE DUETS DISC, BUT AGAIN, THIS SUPPORTS THE THEORY OF JACK ROSE CONSTANTLY EVOLVING AND DEVELOPING HIS ART. ON TOUR IN MARCH, DO NOT MISS THIS! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.