Album Review - Casey Driessen - 3D
Given that he has sup****ted both Steve Earle and Robbie Fulks, it's safe
to assume that fiddler Casey Driessen approaches bluegrass from a
slightly skewed perspective. Nevertheless, it's only after hearing his
debut outing 3D that one can begin to comprehend just how warped his
viewpoint happens to be. The album opens with a complete recasting of
Sally in the Garden, and Driessen essentially melts the traditional tune
until it becomes a swirling sea of programmed beats and eerie,
Middle-Eastern textures. In fact, so delightfully strange are his
arrangements that those tracks that typically would have fallen within
the realm of progressive bluegrass sound tame by comparison.
This is an excerpt. To read the complete review, please visit:
http://www.musicbox-online.com/reviews-2006/caseydriessen-3d.html
