Steve Morse - Prime Cuts

1. Heightened Awareness (4:19)
2. Prognosis (6:01)
3. La Villa Strangiato (9:26)
4. The Clap (3:09)
5. Quantum Soup (11:03)
6. Busybodies (2:34)
7. Led On (6:31)
8. Air On A 6 String (2:20)
9. Wooden Music (4:56)

Players
Steve Morse - guitars
Dave LaRue - bass (on tracks 1,2,6,7,8,9)
Van Romaine - drums (on tracks 1,2,6,7,8,9)
Mike Portnoy - drums (on track 3)
Billy Sheehan - bass (on track 3)
Brendt Allman - rhythm guitar (on track 3)
James Murphy - ending guitar solo (on track 3)
David Townson - rhythm guitar (on track 3)
Jordan Rudess - keyboards (on track 5)
Terry Bozzio - drums and percussion (on track 5)
John Petrucci - guitar (on track 5)
Mark Wood - electric seven string Viper violin (on track 5)
Mark Gage - remix (track 7)

All songs written by Steve Morse except:
"La Villa Strangiato" written by Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart
"The Clap" written by Steve Howe
"Quantum Soup" written by Jordan Rudess
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Liner Notes:

A southpaw from the south, he emerged with a masterful band called The Dixie Dregs. In no time, word of Steve Morse's unique guitar style traveled this country and beyond. It was a style borne out of an unflinching commitment to excellence. His execution, awe-inspiring as much in his choice of notes as in the cleanliness of his delivery, became a benchmark for aspiring guitarists to heed.

Long before Steve Morse began his relationship with Magna Carta Records, those aspiring guitarists, perhaps awestruck by Morse's harmonic sense, tone, and articulation, were voting him tops in such publications as Guitar Player. Such unanimous endorsements point to Morse's uncanny (and rare) ability to play the complex lines guitarists like to hear and make music.

Indeed, music is what you hear when you sample the various tracks on this compendium of seminal Steve Morse songs. In Magna Carta Records, Morse found the forum in which to display his dazzling diversity while contributing solid compositions. In fact, each of the Steve Morse songs found herein, while replete with guitar virtuosity, feature melodic lines that you will hum long after the CD stops spinning. And to hear those figures played so supremely clean is to dig at the root of Steve Morse's artistry.
Aside from deep country and that Dixie funk, Morse exhibits a huge variety of guitar influences, from Steve Howe to John McLaughlin, the latter who seemed to define for a generation the proper ratio of jazz to rock. Then there's this pervasive baroque thing, almost Mozart-like in its staccato phrases and Bach-like in its serenity—evidence, perhaps, of Steve's classical studies in Florida (check out "Air on a 6-String" or the figure that begins around 00.50 on "Prognosis"). No wonder he used to typify his work as "modern chamber music"!
Notes by T. Bruce Wittet.

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