Peaceful Easy Feeling * by Peter Calo (CD, Jul-2004, North Star Music)

Album Features
UPC:	098374017328
Artist:	Peter Calo
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2004
Record Label:	North Star Music
Genre:	Jazz General

Track Listing
1. New Kid in Town
2. One of These Nights
3. Peaceful Easy Feeling
4. Best of My Love
5. Tequila Sunrise
6. Take It to the Limit
7. Hotel California
8. I Can't Tell You Why
9. Lyin' Eyes
10. Sad Café, The
11. Take It Easy
12. Desperado

Details
Producer:	Peter Calo
Distributor:	Goldenrod Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Peter Calo (guitar, lap steel guitar, banjo, piano, percussion programming); Antoine Silverman (violin, fiddle); Lorenza Ponce (violin); Anja Wood (cello); Aaron Heick (saxophone); David Finck (acoustic bass, electric bass); Clint DeGanon (drums); Joseph Mowatt (percussion).Audio Mixer: Peter Calo.Liner Note Author: Peter Calo.Recording information: Hegner Music, New York, NY; Tater Music, New York, NY.Arranger: Peter Calo.Multi-instrumentalist Peter Calo is a familiar name to fans of Carly Simon, Linda Eder, and contemporary film soundtracks, here putting his energies into no vocal takes on a dozen songs made famous by the Eagles, just as his Here Comes the Sun disc on the same label, Rhode Island's North Star Records, is an "instrumental tribute to the Beatles." It's a far cry from the smooth jazz/rock of his PCB unit which performed in Boston two decades prior to this in 1983, the artist moving into a Roger Williams/Ferrante & Teicher/Perry Botkin Jr. area with this work. Calo plays piano, banjo, lap steel, guitars, and additional string and percussion programming with appearances by Anja Wood on cello, Clint deGanon on drums, and other players all laying back and letting the popular melodies take center stage. They succeed at supplying a pleasant and entertaining backdrop without going overboard. That's the dilemma for fans of Calo's work as on many of the songs he has to be technician rather than innovator. They do embrace "One of These Nights" and create a haunting work which pulls away from the pack, the strings taking the place of the Eagles' backing vocals with the guitars bringing the copyright to a different time and place. "Hotel California" gets a lovely Spanish feel as does, naturally, "Tequila Sunrise." These tracks show the most improvisation and because of that stand out to those who have followed Calo's work. "Lyin' Eyes," "Desperado," "Peaceful Easy Feeling," and "New Kid in Town" are more by-the-book -- soothing to listen to but sticking to the program as the Eagles' own performance on "Best of My Love" does. The band's success came from keeping it all very simple and what is interesting here is a virtuoso like Calo holding back. It's a lovely work that will appeal to many, though fans would be more interested in the guitarist putting more of his creative spark into the mix as he did on his introspective and very satisfying Cowboy Song album. ~ Joe Viglione