Bill Frisell opens up about imagination, collaboration and the heavily modified guitar guiding his new album
Bill Frisell considers himself something of a guitar glutton.
“I’ve got a bad problem. I have way too many guitars,” he says with a smile via Zoom from his New York home, his muscles still sore from shoveling after a recent snowpocalypse.
Still, he concedes, abundance isn’t exactly a curse.
“The guitar is like this magic wand. It’ll take you to these places that you never imagined,” Frisell says. “That’s what guides me, just the instrument itself or music in general. The guitar is, like, the conduit; it brings me into the music. All I have to do is pick it up and my imagination starts getting fired up and it’ll go all over the place.