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Go West: Music for the Films of Buster Keaton

{{Infobox album

| name = Music for the Films of Buster Keaton: Go West

| type = Album

| artist = Bill Frisell

| cover = Go West Music for the Films of Buster Keaton.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1995

| recorded = 1995

| venue =

| studio = Möbius Music, San Francisco

| genre = Jazz fusion
Post-bop
Americana
Film soundtrack

| length = 69:19

| label = Elektra Nonesuch

| producer = Lee Townsend

| prev_title = This Land

| prev_year = 1994

| next_title = The High Sign/One Week

| next_year = 1995

}}

Music for the Films of Buster Keaton: Go West is the sixth album by Bill Frisell to be released on the Elektra Nonesuch label. It was released in 1995 and features performances by Frisell, bassist Kermit Driscoll and drummer Joey Baron.[http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/music-for-the-films-of-buster-keaton-go-west Nonesuch Records album info] accessed 12 September 2008. The album is designed as accompaniment to the Buster Keaton's silent film classic, Go West (1925), and was released at the same time as another album of Keaton soundtracks by Frisell, The High Sign/One Week (1995).

Reception

The AllMusic review by JT Griffith stated:

{{quote|Go West is a Buster Keaton classic often compared to the Charlie Chaplin classics. The story follows a down-and-out Midwesterner following Horace Greeley's adage "Go West, young man!" Classic hilarity in this film includes a milking scene and a card game. (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle makes an in-drag cameo.) The original soundtrack recording also includes Kermit Driscoll on acoustic and electric basses and Joey Barron on percussion. Frisell and his band performed the music to all three films at St. Ann's in Brooklyn, NY, in May 1993. The warmly recorded albums are adventurous and evocative. Critics described Bill Frisell's inspired episodic work with Keaton's films as "deceptively modest" and "melancholy Americana. These rich narrative accompaniments are essential for students of cinema music and evangelists of the power of the score to enrich and enlighten visual art."Griffith, JT. [http://allmusic.com/album/go-west-music-for-the-films-of-buster-keaton-r220537/review AllMusic Review] accessed June 15, 2011}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}

|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=513}}

}}

Track listing

All compositions by Bill Frisell.

  1. "Down on Luck" – 4:11
  2. "Box Car" – 0:57
  3. "Busy Street Scene" – 0:44
  4. "Go West" – 1:00
  5. "Train" – 3:06
  6. "Brown Eyes" – 4:21
  7. "Saddle Up!" – 2:41
  8. "First Aid" – 0:51
  9. "Bullfight" – 2:25
  10. "Wolves" – 3:14
  11. "New Day" – 5:27
  12. "Branded" – 1:20
  13. "Eats" – 1:13
  14. "Splinter Scene" – 2:33
  15. "Cattle Drive" – 4:36
  16. "Card Game" – 5:03
  17. "Ambush" – 4:02
  18. "Passing Through Pasadena" – 1:52
  19. "To The Streets" – 3:11
  20. "Tap Dancer and Confusion" – 6:42
  21. "Devil Suit" – 2:08
  22. "Cops and Fireman" – 3:58
  23. "That a Boy" – 1:31
  24. "I Want Her" – 2:13

Personnel

References

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Category:1995 albums

Category:Bill Frisell albums

Category:Nonesuch Records albums

Category:Cultural depictions of Buster Keaton

Category:Alternative versions of soundtracks