12 String Guitar [Single]

Neil G. Jacobs | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 16, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1000
• Format: Single
• Label: Adena
• ASIN: B001O54SRG
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #415,991 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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12-String Guitar Neil Jacobs A review written for the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange by Mark S. Tucker ([e-mail]) From the very beginning, Jacobs' work obtains a very fulsome sound, as would be expected of 12-string solo pieces, but this guy has a swift hand and often sounds like two musicians, playing runs within strums and chord changes, as well falling into contrasting chordal shifts and harmonic developments that expand beyond periphery norms. The guy plays only hand-luthiered axes, and this may account for the augmented chops and purity of pitch and tone throughout the discthough one certainly cannot underestimate Jacobs' mastery. Catch the whirling rondos and harmonics in Toy Boat, Toy Boat, Toy Boat and you'll see what I mean. I note a lot of sympathies for the progressions taken by Al Stewart and his coterie (Peter White, Isaac Guillory, etc.) through the years when those estimables stepped out to solo within Stewart's marvelous melodies. On the other hand, there's a dazzling amount of endeavor cleaving closely to the CandyRat school eschewing easy idenitifiability. Don't for a moment think of the New Age tag, though, lest you ponder only that sector of the constituency demonstrating superior intelligence within the form. Jacobs is much more classically oriented than the new instrumental crowd. Belfast, for instance, crosses spritely madrigal and folk alongside mutated gigue for an almost surreal effect James Joyce would have approved of. Expect a wide variety of flavors and modes here, not to mention an armory of playing techniques in an almost hourlong exposition. Naturally, the sophisticated and playful Ghostrider Medley, with it's Grieg and Rossini elements, is going to appeal to everyone, but so will the remainder, roaming from the Byzantine to the abstract. There aren't a whole lot of strictly-12-string releases out there, and this one's a wall-to-wall fingerpicker's fest. Track List: * Song for Huddy * Toy Boat, Toy Boat, Toy Boat * Amish Autumn * Belfast * Talijanska (traditional) * Monfrina (traditional) * Sacred Blue * The Llama and the Dragon * Peter's Theme (Prokofiev, arr. N. Jacobs) * Moscow Calling * Mo's Lullaby * Dead to Me * The Ghostrider Medley (arr. N. Jacobs) o In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) o Ghostriders in the Sky (Stan Jones) o William Tell Overture (Rossini) * Refugee Tourist * The Magi's Old Calliope All songs written by Neil Jacobs except as noted. Edited by: David N. Pyles ([e-mail]) Copyright 2009, Peterborough Folk Music Society. --Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange review, acousticmusic.com/fame/p05313.htm

Product Description

True solo acoustic 12-string guitar features a striking array of styles and compositions ranging from electrifying to playful to pensive. In this, his fifth CD, Neil spans 30 years of composing and includes some of his earliest pieces and childhood memories, as well as some of his rousing concert favorites. All compositions are performed solo without overdubs or special effects on five of his favorite 12-string guitars.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gotta Love the 12-String!!, March 5, 2011

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Okay, I'm prejudiced in favor of the 12-string guitar. I own a few myself. Roger James "Jim" McGuinn, founder of the Byrds got me hooked on the sound. I have several record albums and tapes of 12-string music. Neil Jacobs does a beautiful job of bringing out the voice of his 12-strings - he used several different ones, all acoustic - on this CD. Comparing a 12-string to a "regular" 6-string is like comparing a pipe organ to a piano. Mind you, I'm not taking away anything from 6-strings. I have a few of those, too. It's just that there's just so much more to 12-ers. Jacobs' album easily scores five stars from me. I can listen to the beautiful voice of 12-string guitars forever. I really do hope there are some in Heaven.