''Two Hand Band'' is an album by guitarist
Pat Donohue that was released in 1993.
Guitarist
Leo Kottke wrote in the liner notes: ""Enjoy this record, but if you're a guitar player, it's going to haunt you."
Reception
Writing for
Allmusic
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, critic Mark Vanderhoff wrote of the album "Two of America's most important musical contributions to the world, folk and jazz, meet head-on with guitar maestro Pat Donohue's Two Hand Band... Donohue's amazing steel string fingerpicking makes it possible for him to perform songs that in most cases were originally written and arranged for large ensembles. His sense of harmony and rhythm is impeccable, but the melodies never get lost in the shuffle."
Track listing
#"High Society" (Traditional) – 2:46
#"The Moochie" (
Duke Ellington
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,
Irving Mills
Irving Harold Mills (born Isadore Minsky; January 16, 1894 – April 21, 1985) was an American music publisher, musician, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter. He sometimes used the pseudonyms Goody Goodwin and Joe Primrose.
Personal
Mills was ...
) – 4:12
#"
Yardbird Suite" (
Charlie Parker
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) – 3:11
#"
All Blues
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" (
Miles Davis
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) – 4:20
#"Tico-Tico" (Z. Abru) – 3:14
# "Seven Come Eleven" (
Charlie Christian,
Benny Goodman
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From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the United States. His co ...
) – 2:58
#"
Royal Garden Blues
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Clarence Williams,
Spencer Williams
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) – 2:04
#"Summer in Central Park" (
Horace Silver) – 4:32
#"
Tea for Two" (
Vincent Youmans,
Irving Caesar) – 2:09
#"
Georgia on My Mind" (
Hoagy Carmichael,
Stuart Gorrell) – 3:10
#"
Tequila and Green Onions" (
Chuck Rio
Daniel Flores (July 11, 1929 – September 19, 2006), also known by his stage name Chuck Rio, was an American rock and roll saxophonist. He is best remembered for his self-penned song "Tequila", which he recorded with The Champs, and which reac ...
) – 3:26
Personnel
*Pat Donohue – guitar
Production notes
*
Steve Tibbetts
Steve Tibbetts (born 1954) is an American guitarist and composer. He views the recording studio as a tool for creating sounds. Most of his albums include percussionist Marc Anderson.
Style
Tibbetts plays acoustic and electric guitar and exoti ...
– engineer
*Mary Ellen LaMotte – photography
*Johnny Hanson – design
References
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1993 albums
Pat Donohue albums