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  • Audio CD (25 Feb 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Nonesuch
  • ASIN: B0010YO8M6
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 40,364 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Punch Bowl 3:29£0.69
Listen  2. The Blind Leaving the Blind Mvt 112:13Album Only
Listen  3. The Blind Leaving the Blind Mvt 2 9:21£0.69
Listen  4. The Blind Leaving the Blind Mvt 311:58Album Only
Listen  5. The Blind Leaving the Blind Mvt 4 8:32£0.69
Listen  6. Sometimes 4:41£0.69
Listen  7. Nothing, Then 3:02£0.69
Listen  8. It'll Happen 3:06£0.69

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Daily Telegraph, February 28, 2008
"...The virtuoso sophistication of the Punch Brothers is redefining a traditional genre,.." - Ivan Hewett

The Word Magazine, 2007
'Can anyone, anywhere, play anything any better than Chris Thile plays the mandolin? (Clue: they can't.)


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5.0 out of 5 stars Another great album from Chris Thile, 1 April 2008
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This is one of those albums that stays in your CD player for weeks after you buy it. The structure of the four part "Blind Leaving the Blind" is astounding. The whole album feels like it will never stop moving - the songs melt into each other. I can't describe it! If you liked his Nickel Creek stuff and his other albums like "Deceiver" and "Not All Who Wander Are Lost" you'll love this :) If you've never heard him before start perhaps with Nickel Creek's "Why should the Fire Die?"

Cracking stuff :)Buy it and support one of the greatest living artists of our time!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Enlarging the palette, 6 April 2009
By C. Overton (UK) - See all my reviews
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I loved previous Thile effort 'how to grow a woman from the ground' and was keen to hear latest effort with the now permanent line-up of Pikelny, Witcher, Eldridge & Kowert under the name of 'The Punch Brothers'.
Reviews warned that a good few listens would be neccessary before forming an opinion. The 4 suite composition 'the blind leaving the blind' is described by Thile as being "like a string quintet, there are parts that read like a jazz lead sheet. There is plenty of improvising and lots of stuff that is loosely dictated". I'm no jazz fan, but I'm not a blue-grass purest either so I listened open-minded. A friend compared it to having grit in your eye! Still able to see, but knowing something just wasn't quite right. Another friend said it sounded like horror movie soundtrack.
However, I really like it! Granted, it is musicians music and not for anyone expecting 'cripple creek' or 'little Maggie'(the band were apparently heckled at a UK festival and told to 'play some blue-grass for Christ's sake'). There are parts that meander and clash, but on the whole there's a thread running through that allows you to stay on the journey. The songs break through the instrumentation at welcomed stages, especially suite 2's 'it's over' which hits you like a train ride bringing you a sudden glimpse of sparkling sea-shore after a passage through sombre woodland.
It's great to see someone reaching the top of their game. You can hear the enthusiasm in Thile's arrangements - his musical ability finally being stretched following the end of Nickel Creek. His fellow band members are all world class musicians in their own right, so he's no longer being held back.




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