Title: Bridges Artist: Mary Flower Label: Yellow Dog Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 823800164228 Genre: Blues Release Date: 2009-02-10 Number of Discs: 1
Mary Flower's newest studio album, Bridges, is another chapter in the acoustic guitarist's narrative of the diversity of American roots music, deftly melding ragtime, country blues, swing, folk styles, and hot jazz through the mastery of her fingerpicked and lap-style guitar playing. It's also a love letter of sorts to her adoptive home town of Portland, OR - the "bridges" of the title allude to the many crossings of the Willamette River that give the city it's unique character, as well as metaphorically referencing the connections to many different musical genres that give Mary's distinctive sound it's own unique character. As Terry Currier, owner of indie-music cornerstone Music Millennium, summarizes in the album's liner notes, "Throughout her career, Mary has brought her own roots and blues sensibility to a wide variety of genres. Bridges is a unique, only-in-Portland blend that could only have been created by the versatile Mary Flower."
Tracks: 1.1 Rhythm of the Road 1.2 There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears 1.3 Backwater Blues 1.4 When I Get Home I'm Gonna Be Satisfied 1.5 Columbia River Rag 1.6 Ghost of the St. Louis Blues 1.7 Slow Lane to Glory 1.8 On Revival Day/There's Going to Be the Devil to Pay 1.9 Portland Town 1.10 Daughter of Contortion 1.11 Big Bill Blues 1.12 Temptation Rag 1.13 Up a Lazy River 1.14 Blue Waltz
