| Not Our First Goat Rodeo | ||||
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| Released | June 19, 2020 | |||
| Recorded | August 2019 | |||
| Genre | Bluegrass, classical | |||
| Length | 44:53 | |||
| Label | Sony Masterworks | |||
| Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile chronology | ||||
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Not Our First Goat Rodeo is a 2020 collaborative album by Stuart Duncan, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile, featuring Aoife O'Donovan. It was released on June 19, 2020. [2]
On October 24, 2011, Stuart Duncan, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile (with Aoife O'Donovan) released their first album together, entitled The Goat Rodeo Sessions . [3] [4] The album debuted at number one on the Billboard Classical, Classical Crossover, and Bluegrass charts [2] [5] and reached number eighteen on the Billboard 200. [6] It also won the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album and the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical in 2013. [7]
The term goat rodeo refers to a chaotic event where many things must go right for the situation to work, [8] a reference to the unusual and challenging aspects of blending classical and bluegrass music. Ma described a goat rodeo thus: "If there were forks in the road and each time there was a fork, the right decision was made, then you get to a goat rodeo." [9]
Ma has stated in an interview that the group had the idea to make a second album in 2011, while recording The Goat Rodeo Sessions. [10] In August 2019, Meyer shared photographs on social media of the group, including O'Donovan, in studio recording new material. [11] On June 19 of the next year, this second album, Not Our First Goat Rodeo, was released. [2]
On September 1, 2020, a Tiny Desk Concerts was released by NPR in which the group performed three songs from the album. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the musicians each recorded themselves individually from home for the set. [12] [13]
The album has received praise from reviewers, who have cited the group's virtuosity, chemistry, and ability to bend genres.
All tracks are written by Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile [1]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Your Coffee is a Disaster" | 4:40 |
| 2. | "Waltz Whitman" | 3:44 |
| 3. | "The Trappings (feat. Aoife O'Donovan)" | 3:39 |
| 4. | "Every Note a Pearl (feat. Aoife O'Donovan)" | 4:37 |
| 5. | "Not For Lack of Trying" | 5:09 |
| 6. | "Voila!" | 3:11 |
| 7. | "Scarcely Cricket" | 4:46 |
| 8. | "We Were Animals (feat. Aoife O'Donovan)" | 5:22 |
| 9. | "Nebbia" | 4:31 |
| 10. | "757 ml" | 5:08 |
The album features Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile on all 10 tracks. Aoife O'Donovan appears on 3 tracks as a featured vocalist. [14] [15]
Not Our First Goat Rodeo has been received well by reviewers. Catherine Nelson of The Strad praised the album's complexity and "sheer joyfulness of expression". [16] Writing for AllMusic, Matt Collar described the album as a "deeply engaging, often rapturous album that balances keen and studied musicality with an almost chaotic passion for group interplay". [17] Comparing the album to The Goat Rodeo Sessions, Justin Hiltner called Not Our First Goat Rodeo "more ornery, more confident, brash, and joyously off-kilter", and said that the ensemble "feels veteran" for a second album. [18]
The album also reached number one on the Billboard Classical, Classical Crossover, and Bluegrass charts. [6]
Yo-Yo Ma is a French-born American cellist. Born and partially raised in Paris to Chinese parents and educated in New York City, he was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from the Juilliard School and Harvard University, attended Columbia University, and has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world. He has recorded more than 90 albums and received 19 Grammy Awards.
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Appalachian Journey is the second album from the string trio of bassist and composer Edgar Meyer, fiddler and composer Mark O'Connor, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. James Taylor and Alison Krauss join the trio individually on two Stephen Foster songs arranged for the trio. Sony Classical released the disc in 2000. The album joined a number of other recordings released since Appalachia Waltz that continue a new kind of classical music tinged with and influenced by the sounds and structures of America's own musical traditions. It is possible that the titles of these albums imply a continuity of the American classical tradition begun by Aaron Copland in Appalachian Spring. Unlike their first album, the three virtuosos spent several months on the compositions and arrangements, from July 19 to September 10, 1999.
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