Is That You?

Is That You?
Studio album by Bill Frisell
Released 1990
Recorded August, 1989
Genre Downtown music
Length 49:33
Label Elektra Nonesuch
Producer Wayne Horvitz
Bill Frisell chronology

Before We Were Born
(1989)
Is That You?
(1990)
Where in the World?
(1991)

Is That You? is the second album by Bill Frisell to be released on the Elektra Nonesuch label.[1] It was released in 1990 and features performances by Frisell, Wayne Horvitz and Joey Baron who were also members of Naked City.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick awarded the album 3 stars stating "Is That You? finds the guitarist already trending away from that band's scattershot assault and toward the more pastoral leanings he would embrace in the upcoming decade".[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]

Track listing

  1. "No Man's Land" - 6:40
  2. "Someone in My Backyard" - 2:45
  3. "Rag" - 4:00
  4. "Is That You?" - 6:50
  5. "The Way Home" - 6:00
  6. "Twenty Years" - 2:43
  7. "Chain of Fools" (Covay) - 3:30
  8. "Hello Nellie" - 4:07
  9. "The Days of Wine and Roses" (Mancini, Mercer) - 3:35
  10. "Yuba City" (Horvitz)- 5:42
  11. "Half a Million" - 4:00
  12. "Hope and Fear" - 1:06
All compositions by Bill Frisell except as indicated
  • Recorded August 1989 at Ironwood Studios, Seattle

Personnel

References

  1. Nonesuch Records album info accessed 12 September 2008.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Olewnick, B. Allmusic Review accessed June 13, 2011