Jim Campilongo - Orange - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

San Francisco Bay Area guitarist Jim Campilongo is back with his special brand of instrumental guitar music featuring guest superstar/Grammy winner Norah Jones vocals on two tracks. Guitar Magazine in January of 2003 said about Jim InchNobody weaves together jazz, blues and country with the silky finesse of Jim Campilongo,Inch Inchbends emanate from his weathered Deluxe Reverb like ghostly wails from a haunted castle. There are spirits in those licks.Inch - Jude Gold.

Jeremy Stephens, Corrina Rose Logston Stephens and Kurt Stephenson, multi-talented musicians and singers for High Fidelity, could be considered bluegrass archaeologists who excavate rare gems of forgotten or overlooked bluegrass and old-time music and make them shine again for new audiences. This latest collaborative endeavor by the band brings forth gospel treasures that will move your feet and your soul. Music In My Soul has been a labor of love to the highest degree, High Fidelity's Inchutmost for His Highest,Inch to borrow a phrase from Oswald Chambers. It is an album of songs dedicated to the LORD Jesus and meant for lifting Him up in praise while professing the powerful truths found within the gospel. Fellowship, belonging, bearing each other's burdens, healing, joy, deliverance, perseverance, safety, and security are some of the themes. The band has pulled from the well of their musical predecessors - maybe a bit deeper than usual on this record - and simultaneously, a first ever InchoriginalInch composition by the group (written by Corrina Rose Logston Stephens) is featured. Though incorporating gospel songs has always been natural for High Fidelity, having a whole album set apart for this purpose was a truly special experience.

Honeyfingers' guitarist Luca Benedetti and Campilongo co-produced Last Night, This Morning, which covers the 20-year recording career of Jim Campilongo - going back to his debut Jim Campilongo and the 10 Gallon Cats all the way through his latest genre-defying compositions that can only be described as having that InchCampilongoInch sound. Alongside the Honeyfingers crew of pedal steel guitar virtuoso Jonny Lam (David Byrne, Sinkane), guitarist/arranger Luca Benedetti (Ron Carter, The Dang-it Bobbys), gypsy jazz guitarist Roy Williams (Stephane Wremberl, Alex Hargreaves), bassist David Speranza (Ingrid Jensen), and drummer Russ Meissner (Sean Smith Quartet, Loren Stillman), Campilongo's Last Night, This Morning is a showcase of top-notch artistry, extraordinary chemistry, and sheer joy. It's undeniably Campilongo's finest recording to date; a singular collection unlike any other.