Down Home

Joey Baron | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 21, 1997)
• Original Release Date: October 21, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Intuition
• ASIN: B000002GSV
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #612,346 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mighty Fine

2. Little Boy

3. Wide Load

4. The Crock Pot

5. What

6. Listen to the Woman

7. Aren't We All?

8. Supposing

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funky...groovaholic...oh..baby!!!, August 25, 1999

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[e-mail] (Tampa, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Down Home (Audio CD)

How to have the most fun in the world. The instruction are inside. I certainly agree with all the others posting before me. This CD is a must. "What" takes the cake though. It's the most exciting one chord vamp tune I've ever heard ... funk and syncopation never sounded better!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How Refreshing!, May 27, 1999

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[e-mail] (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Down Home (Audio CD)

Joey Baron has written and produced a purely refreshing piece of work. While it's elegant in its simplicity, I defy most listeners to count tempo in "What". I still can't find the first beat of the bar. All four musicians are legendary in their own right but there is no showing off here. Truely a CD where less is more . . . so much more.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funk on the backburner, February 9, 2001

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Douglas T Martin (Alpharetta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Down Home (Audio CD)

Joey Baron, one of the most in-demand drummers around, assembles an band of major weight: Arthur Blythe on alto sax, bassist Ron Carter, and guitarist extraordinaire Bill Frisell. The songs, all written by Baron, are mostly either laidback struttin'-it grooves or haunting ballads - quite a contrast. On the struttin' numbers Frisell riffs along, working that one chord for all it's worth until it's time to let loose with a twangy guitar solo. Carter locks in with Baron's drums on the funky numbers and gets suitably mellow on the ballads; on the swinging "Crock Pot" he does some serious walking. Blythe, who is always good, sounds plaintive on the ballads; when it's time to play over the funk he riffs without falling into cliches. Half rent party, half winding-down, "Down Home" is a new type of R&B recording. The same band also contributes to Baron's "We'll Soon Find Out".