Bayshore Road

Peppino D'Agostino

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 31, 2005)
• Original Release Date: May 31, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Favored Nations
• ASIN: B0007QRAKK
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #79,381 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

These musicians aren't supposed to be playing together. Stef Burns is a fret-burner who's recorded with Y&T and Alice Cooper and currently tours with Huey Lewis & the News. Peppino D'Agostino is a sensitive finger-style acoustic guitarist who has been recording in the States since he released Acoustic Spirit in 1987. Yet these two neighbors in San Francisco's East Bay suburbs have made a CD that strikes a balance between sensitive interplay and furious virtuosity. A composer as much as a guitarist, D'Agostino wrote most of the tunes, and although he's a pretty busy player to start with, he still makes room for Stef Burns to lay in his often yearning leads. Despite Burns's rock & roll lineage, the pair cowrote two of the album's more pastoral pieces, the title track and the calming "Inner Sanctuary." D'Agostino's "Beyond the Dunes," already a frenetic, Middle Eastern-inspired composition, gets ripping sustained leads from Burns while D'Agostino creates a shifting latticework beneath him. And his "Venus over Venice" is by turns anthemic and thoughtful, though the fadeout on Burns's knotty solo is unsatisfying. Even the two tunes that seem out of context are fun diversions. "Jerry's Breakdown" reflects back on D'Agostino's Italian bluegrass roots, and Weather Report's "Birdland" is given a lighthearted treatment. But they seem misplaced next to the panoramic expanse of "Better World," a tune that breathes in Western colors and open spaces. Let's hope these two musicians remain good neighbors. --John Diliberto

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Two talented guitarists, August 22, 2005

By	George Dionne (Cape Cod, MA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Acoustic meets electric on this serene journey through the back roads and landscapes that these two talented guitarists can illicit.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great CD, January 11, 2007

By	Sandy Schenecker "scolo" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Cover song is the best, but don't miss out on the rest.... "Venus Over Venice" - really does sound like the guitars are singing, in fact if a person added voice, it would ruin it. "Manha de Carnaval" - beauty of guitar work is very romantic. "Beyond the Dunes" - still a bit ethereal, but a pace that you have to move along with too. "Birdland" - can't help but get engaged - you know it, great version. "Jerry's Breakdown" sounds kinda like "pickin' banjo-ish" to me, not my style. "Echo Lake" - nice and long enough to get lost in. Move over Acoustic Alchemy, D&B have moved into the number one slot in my player....