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fret| On the fingerboard of a plucked or bowed string instrument, an inlaid ridge of a material such as gut, wood, ivory, or metal, or a circlet of nylon, against which a string is pressed to shorten its vibrating length and therefore change pitch. Frets enable the player to play in tune with certainty, since the vibrating length of the string is fixed by the fret. |
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| Using acoustic and electric, fretless and synth, he tackles love songs old ("I Fall in Love Too Easily") and new ("Just the Two of Us"), songbooks American ("Time After Time") and Brazilian ("Vitoriosa"), delivering peerless performances that could make even a curmudgeon's heart sing. In Land Of The Sky, Al Petteway and Amy White deftly collaborate to memorably perform within that Southern Appalachian music tradition and heritage for the benefit and delight of a new generation of listeners with recorded performances that include both original and traditional compositions of mountain melodies played on acoustic guitars, the mandolin, the Celtic harp, the banjo, fiddles, the Irish Bouzouki, Fretless Bass, percussion, and vocals. Honey" and "(Red)" embark with the sparest of parts but, by their finish, bristle with sounds made from Duct tape coin pianos, fretless banjos and slit gongs. |