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The Goat Rodeo Sessions

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Track Listings

1 Attaboy
2 Quarter Chicken Dark
3 Helping Hand
4 Where's My Bow?
5 Here and Heaven
6 Franz and the Eagle
7 Less Is Moi
8 Hill Justice
9 No One but You
10 13:8
11 Goat Rodeo

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Yo-Yo Ma follows up his Gold-Certified SONGS OF JOY AND PEACE with a landmark Americana album project. In the tradition of APPALACHIAN JOURNEY and OBRIGADO BRAZIL, Yo-Yo Ma once again embraces styles and traditions that go beyond classical music by bringing together four American string virtuosos and creating a new kind of chamber ensemble. THE GOAT RODEO SESSIONS is a landmark album project which uniquely showcases cellist Yo-Yo Ma, fiddler Stuart Duncan, bassist Edgar Meyer and mandolin player Chris Thile, with special guest vocalist, Aoife O'Donovan on two tracks.

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches; 3.52 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Sony Classical
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 22835366
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2011
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 57 minutes
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ August 6, 2011
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Sony Classical
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005G5NPIS
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 out of 5 stars 641

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record has lots of Static and the hole in the middle of both records is not round??? my audio equipment is only two weeks old so it's not that.sending back and will leave review at 5 stars tell adequate time has been given to fix the issueupdate: received new record it sounds the same and the record has center hole that is not round and dosn't track in a circular pattern on my player and has a large edge burr you can get cut from if your not carefulthe second record(side 3 & 4) sounds better than the first but still has issues with a center hole out of roundlove the music!!! just wish the record was round and static freeProjet Debut Carboncambridge audio cp1
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Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2024
Faced with going to brick and mortar I got a deal on this CD. It was actually recommended to me by the mail man!!
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2023
This ranks right up there with their solos!!!
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2011
Vibrant and varied, this album is a wonderful addition to the classical crossover genre. Some tracks made me want to get up and dance, others were melancholy and heart rending. The musicians are all world class, and the music is of original composition. The fire and drive of the bluegrass world meets with the clarity and class of the classical world, and something new is born.

Edgar Meyer and Yo-Yo Ma have collaborated successfully before on albums such as 
Appalachia Waltz  and  Appalachian Journey , but this album reaches new levels of musical interest and variety. In this collaboration, they've added two more fabulous musicians to the mix: Chris Thile on mandolin (originally of Nickel Creek fame) and Stuart Duncan on fiddle (session musician with the big names in Nashville). This album relies primarily on instrumental work, but each track has a unique sound. The album never sounds repetitive. At times, the musicians even pull out instruments we're not used to hearing them play: we hear Meyer on the gamba and piano, Duncan on the banjo and mandolin, and Thile on the guitar, fiddle, gamba, and vocals.

The album flows well, and I enjoyed it in its entirety. "Here and Heaven" and "No One but You," which both include vocalist Aoife O'Donovan, are particularly wonderful. I also thoroughly enjoyed "Less is Moi," with its catchy and surprising rhythm. I think my favorite track, though, was "Franz the Eagle" -- I can't get over the beauty of the piano and cello duet in this haunting and majestic piece.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2011
Yo-Yo Ma has tiptoed into these waters before with Appalachian Waltz and Appalachian Journey, but this time he is a veteran swimmer in a quartet. Teaming up again with bassist Edgar Meyers and with bluegrass chums Chris Thile on mandolin and Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Ma adds melodic sonority to some highly sophisticated arrangements, for each track encompasses many lyrical phrases and moods. It is fusion of a sort, classical music sensibility blended with bluegrass virtuosity and wit. It some ways the album is a series of tone poems to American country spirit. The music swirls, twirls, and whirls, it dances and weaves, it sings. Indeed, Aofie O'Donovan from the alternative bluegrass band Crooked Still (which includes a cellist) does indeed sing on the fifth and ninth tracks, Here and Heaven; and No One But You, whose lyrics are included in the notes. In tracks 6 and 9, Meyer switches to piano. Similar sessions have been done before, including symphonic explorations, but this album excels. Besides its sweetness of sound and its beauty, the clever musical interplay and insightful musicianship are manifest. I prefer the sprightly, more playful bluegrass passages over the pastoral sequences; still as the final, title track Goat Rodeo indicates, the success of this hybrid undertaking was extremely unlikely, but here it is!
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Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2012
This album is truly awesome. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is a fan of stringed instrumentals or bluegrass. While I'm not usually a huge bluegrass fan, this album had such fun elements it was impossible to resist jamming out in my car.
The one problem is that the album is slightly frontloaded, with the energetic stuff within the first couple tracks, and then more emotive and slower pieces in the middle, sandwiched by a fun song or two at the end. I don't like it when artists do this, since it feels like they're tricking me with fun songs and then leave me in an emotional desert for 40 minutes. The songs in the middle are quality and great, but definitely slower.
But these might be the most talented musicians ever, so I guess if anyone's going to leave me in a music desert I guess I would rather be stuck there with Yo Yo Ma.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2011
I bought this album because I heard the song here and heaven. That song was fantastic vocally. Aoife brings the album to a whole different level. The harmonies she does with Chris Thile are real tear jerkers. Now I was expecting the rest of the album to be very Strength in numbers like but was a little saddened when it turned out to be pretty classical. "Where's my bow" is kind of just mediocre-I mean the playing is spectacular technically but it sounds so classical-they doubled the fiddle and it just sounds like a corny Bach remix to me. Loved Hill Justice, it was unique classic bluegrassy, very good. Lots of beautiful weaving in and out of fiddle, cello, and bass. Very nice dynamics. Overall this album is good, not great because some of the songs are missing souls, they just didn't sparkle to me. (My opinions on albums usually change if they persuade me to listen to them enough and there are a few real good songs that I'm sure'll do this to me).
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Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2011
After listening to 2008's Meyer/Thile duet album, I expected more of the same on this release. Seeing Duncan/Ma in the mix gave me hope that the songs would steer more towards melody and away from atonal experimentation, for whatever reason (mostly because Duncan's playing is ear candy). Please don't get me wrong. I understand and appreciate the creative and artistic accomplishment of music like what is contained on the 2008 Meyer/Thile album. I just prefer my music with a little more "hook". Thankfully for me, this album is brimming with beautiful and haunting melodies, with all four musicians working together to find the perfect mix of bluegrass, classical, and a little pinch of Miles Davis-like atonality (or, if you prefer, Jazz).

The best way I can describe "The Goat Rodeo Sessions" is a mix of "Uncommon Ritual" and "Appalachia Waltz". In other words, this album is amazing.

Highly recommended.

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Perrin
5.0 out of 5 stars Très bien
Reviewed in France on November 4, 2019
Bien reçu
chad677
5.0 out of 5 stars Genial album
Reviewed in Spain on February 13, 2019
Genial album, después de haber escuchado las canciones de "Quarter Chicken Dark" y "Attaboy" en Youtube, se lo compré a mi hermano como regalo y, encantado, le gusto mucho. Muchas gracias.
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5.0 out of 5 stars アメリカーナの祭典
Reviewed in Japan on July 21, 2020
カントリーやヒルビリー、マウンテンミュージック、遡ることケルトやバロック、アラビックな旋律、クラシック…etc.
新曲として紡ぎ出されることが素晴らしい。
Great Goat sessions!
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Reviewed in Italy on July 24, 2016
Quattro Maestri. Una garanzia! L'ho acquistato dopo aver sentito casualmente un solo brano di questo album. Amore al primo ascolto!
jannert
5.0 out of 5 stars Just stellar ...soothing, exciting, intriguing ...beautiful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 25, 2015
Well, I can't get enough of this permutation of musicians. I've always been a fan of Stuart Duncan, since his days with The Nashville Bluegrass Band, and I'm now a huge HUGE fan of The Punch Brothers. Now I've added Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer to my list of people whose music I will go out and buy without even hearing it first.

This collection is stellar. I can either sit and listen to it intently, or put it on as background, and do things like work on my novel to the tracks--it's that kind of CD. Each track has the ability to stick in the head in a good way, and I find myself not skipping tracks, but playing the CD straight through. Each track develops a musical theme--which becomes instantly recognisable and memorable--much like classical music does. The theme weaves through, gets treatment by different instrumental groupings, returns to the original, goes off into unexpected directions.

I would describe the style of this CD as elegant as opposed to lush, in that nothing is ever done for show-offy reasons, and the musical integrity itself takes precedence over everything else--including the virtuosity of the performers. They are happy to play 'simple' when the music calls for it. This is a collaboration made in heaven ...but then so are The Punch Brothers. Some musical groupings just 'work.' This one certainly does.

And speaking of heaven ...the track "Here and Heaven"--one of only two vocal tracks on the album--is one of Chris Thile's best lyrical and musical offerings to date. As in so many of his songs, the meaning of the lyrics doesn't gel immediately, because the quality of the music is so high and proves an initial distraction. But when the meanings of the lyrics do fall into place ...as these did for me only this morning ...I am stunned by his maturity as a lyricist. This one encapsulates EXACTLY the fears and restrictions we feel as we get older and our lives are more than half lived, and we become conservative in the sense that we fear taking chances that may leave us with nothing. We prefer lukewarm to hot or cold as we wait around for things to get worse. I can't believe he knows this already, as he's only in his early 30s. Just wonderful stuff.

I honestly can't see anybody disliking this CD, no matter what your musical preferences might be. It straddles so many genres, and does it so well. These people are truly gems of our generation, as their multiple awards indicate. I look forward to more collaborations.