CHRIS TILE & BRAD MEHLDAU - THE OLD SHADE TREE (LIVE)

THE OLD SHADE TREE

CHRIS TILE & BRAD MEHLDAU

SONGWRITER: BRAD MEHLDAU & CRIS THILE

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

HOW: LIVE

ALBUM: CHRIS TILE & BRAD MEHLDAU

LABEL: NONESUCH

GENRE: BALLADS

YEAR: 2016

 

        Christopher Scott Thile (/ˈθiːli/; born February 20, 1981) is an American mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer, and radio personality, best known for his work in the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek and the acoustic folk and progressive bluegrass quintet Punch Brothers. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. In October 2016, he became the host of the radio variety show A Prairie Home Companion, which in December 2017 was renamed Live from Here.

        Bradford Alexander Mehldau (/ˈmɛlˌdaʊ/; born August 23, 1970) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.

      Mehldau studied music at The New School, and toured and recorded while still a student. He was a member of saxophonist Joshua Redman's Quartet with bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade in the mid-1990s, and has led his own trio since the early 1990s. His first long-term trio featured bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy; in 2005 Jeff Ballard replaced Rossy. These bands have released a dozen albums under the pianist's name.

         Since the early 2000s, Mehldau has experimented with other musical formats in addition to trio and solo piano. Largo, released in 2002, contains electronics and input from rock and classical musicians; later examples include touring and recording with guitarist Pat Metheny, writing and playing song cycles for classical singers Renée Fleming and Anne Sofie von Otter, composing orchestral pieces for 2009's Highway Rider, and playing electronic keyboard instruments in a duo with drummer Mark Guiliana.

Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau is an album by Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau. It was released by Nonesuch Records on January 27, 2017.

          Mandolinist and vocalist Chris Thile and pianist Brad Mehldau first played together in 2011 when Mehldau had a residency at London's Wigmore Hall. Their first tour as a duo was two years later. They performed together again in 2015, after which they recorded this studio album

 I hope none of you think I'm crying

As the sweat rolls down my face.

I hope none of you think I'm losing

As I'm lapping the guy in last place.

I hope one of you thanks me this winter

For what some of you would hang me from now.

Cause today the sun kissed a layer of skin from your

nose. it's cause last night I chopped the old shade tree

down

I guess none of you thought of its roots

As the living dead trapped underground

Or of the blizzard above or the hero I'd be

Planting bonfires all around town.

So as the frost licks the layer of skin off the nose

Of your neighbour, remember who chopped the old shade treedown.