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Huron Street | 
 enlarge | Artist: Don Ross
Label: Narada
Category: Music
Buy New: $16.98
Rating:  14 reviews
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 50834
UPC: 724385083426
EAN: 0724385083426
ASIN: B00005AKIA
Release Date: April 3, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Big Buck | | • | Thin Air | | • | Loaded Leather Moonroof | | • | This Dragon Won't Sleep | | • | King Street Suite | | • | Zarzuela | | • | In from the Cold | | • | Wall of Glass | | • | Midnight March | | • | Lucy Watusi | | • | Catherine | | • | Three Hands |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Canadian guitarist Don Ross is a multitechnique fingerpicker who sits comfortably in the company of Preston Reed and Leo Kottke. Rerecording compositions from earlier, Canadian-only releases, Huron Street's melodies arrive out of a confluence of folk, country, and a dollop of classical sensibilities that keep things from getting rustic. Alternating down-home grooves with plaintive ballads, he writes complex tunes that roam like a Jack Kerouac novel. Although he fingerpicks, and has the whole two-handed tapping technique down, Ross's approach is more rhythmic than most, with lots of chordal strumming used to effect dynamics. It gives him a hard-edged, linear sound that often seems more plectrum driven. That tack wears thin over the course of the album, as he reverts to strumming to keep the rhythm going instead of letting his melodies flow outwards. The string bass on a couple of tunes definitely helps and is the kind of lift Ross needs to separate himself from the acoustic guitar glut. --John Diliberto
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Great Skill! Take the next step, it's not a competition. October 22, 2008
Ford Rivers (Forest City, Montana, USA)
I'm impressed with every doggone recording I've heard. Guitarists and Musicians may be envious of the speed and skill. Now, imagine 10 years have passed, and use the skill instead of promoting it. I don't want to be impressed by skill, just enraptured in the silences in music and how we put specific sounds together to form a perfect rhythm-note journey that we would like to travel through. I may like an amazing roller coaster ride once, but not feel like riding it again. You've shown that you can do. Now, just relax and start doing. This album does not do that. It is impressive in it's skill and fast pickin, and may inspire young guitarists (or discourage them) but this is not the Olympics of skill. I would rather listen to worse musicians with better recordings.
 To the leass than 5 star reviewers... July 20, 2007
J. Hartung (California)
little jealous are ya? never got much further with your gtr playing than sitting on your bed huh? too funny!
You better learn the flute.. July 20, 2006
derek (usa)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've made a point of finding where the guitar standard is today and with guys like Don Ross, Tommy Emmanuel and Stanley Jordan you better have some good lyrics or get a genetic enhancement because your not going out shine anyone on guitar.
Great cd, ignore the 2 star reviewers June 12, 2006
Diogenes DogSnack (Redwood City, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
First of all I can't believe anyone could give this cd 2 or 3 stars. This is first rate material. The comparisons to Hedges are apt, how could that be a bad thing? Ross is a technical wizard and few indeed can play at his level of ability. Far from just playing the guitar, the compositions are bright,memorable, and energizing. I waited too long to buy this cd. Hope to hear Don play one day, but he seems to be playing almost exclusively in Canada.
 playing the guitar or playing MUSIC? December 1, 2005
John Metz (Cincinnati, OH United States)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
Many fingerstyle acoustic guitar instrumentalists seem to gravitate to displaying their technical talent rather than writing great songs. Don is an awesome instrumentalist, but the compositions seem to fall short. It seems that in most cases a catchy guitar riff generated the songs, not the heartfelt desire to write a piece of music. The result is a technical tour de force, not a piece of emotion. Not a bad record, but it is (unfortunately) a bit forgetable after a few listens. Check out Laurence Juber or Michael Hedges if a you seek a more wholistic blend of chops and emotion-pulling composition.
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