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As you can guess from the title of this album, George Winston lives in Montana. And, very clearly, he likes it there. Choosing to base his work on folk and traditional music that is associated with that state, the album has only five original compositions. This isn’t bad by any means, but I spent my first listening (without reading the notes) thinking how familiar the music sounded. For those of us who are used to the more abstract styling of his other albums this takes a few cuts to get used to.
The sound is still the sparse, acoustic approach that Winston is noted for. He isn’t a musician to waste notes unnecessarily, often paring a melody, traditional or not, down to its bare bones. It is more proper to say that he ’derived’ his work from Montanan music rather than that he borrowed it. Winston’s musical sense is always very good, and it certainly didn’t fail him here as he mixes his jazz-like approach with a melodic tradition.
If I had my druthers, I would have liked to hear Winston work more with the music of Montana’s northern frontier - the Voyageurs and the Metis. This isn’t a criticism, Winston has drawn from what he is most familiar with. I just would like to here what a really good musician could do with traditions that get too little air time.
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