Jack Rose
Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers

	Description:	CD on Beautiful Happiness
	Format:	CD
	Genre:	Guitar Hero
	Label:	Beautiful Happiness
	Price:	£7.99 (sale price!)
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Rating: 4
...according to our Business Lady on 28 August 2009.

'Beautiful Happiness' sees Jack Rose collaborating with long time pals The Black Twig Pickers to kick out some seriously hardcore barn dance party music. It's a frenzy of guitar finger picking, harmonica wails, sharp string arrangements and some sweet banjo plucking. This seriously rocks out for a Kentucky Bluegrass!!! The playing is super stealth, you'd think they'd been on tour for ever!! Probably have??? Who knows?? Now i don't know a huge amount about Jack Rose other than he played in the group Pelt who we're pretty strange and experimental. Phil tells me that his other releases have been more restrained and drawn out, kinda like John Fahey or one of them types. Well, previous Jack Rose related material is covered on 'Beautiful Happiness' including songs performed with banjo player Twig Mike Gangloff (they have previously performed as a duo) as well as Rose & Family standards such as 'Kensington blues'. I've got to admit to struggling with Bluegrass but this is pretty sweet. It's well executed whilst maintaining a little little roughness around the edges, sorta punk rock Bluegrass as you will. If you wanna know more you'll have to consult the sound clips because it's home time now.

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This raw and rocking collaboration between Jack Rose and The Black Twigs features some of the most swinging, hard-hitting string music waxed in many a decade. Rose’s solo playing has always had a tough edge, with his prodigious technique often employed to drop right-hand bombs. His use of a thumbpick originates from years of duets with Twig Mike Gangloff, struggling to make his guitar heard over Gangloff’s crashing banjo. The front line of Rose and Gangloff’s strings are joined by Isak Howell’s no-nonsense guitar and harmonica and Nate Bowles’ variety of expert percussion. The four lock together with a sure-footedness honed by frequent touring and a singularity of intent to rock. Gangloff takes the vocals, howling out standards like “Little Sadie” firmly in the old-time tradition—without reserve. A few of the tracks here are updates of Rose & Family classics, with the group turning the stately “Kensington Blues” upbeat and issuing an assured take on “Bright Sunny South,” first recorded by Pelt (with Rose and Gangloff) back in 2001 on their gonzo classic double-disc Ayahuasca.