Fingerprints

Fingerprints

'This is the album I've been waiting my entire life to make, I've never done a complete collection of instrumentals' says Peter Frampton of his remarkable new CD, Fingerprints (A&M/New Door/UME). It's an impressive 14-tune collection of guitar mastery that crosses several musical borders, from funked up r&b to razor-edged rockers to rootsy blues to country-flamed beauties to jazzy Django swing to reflective impressionism. Fingerprints features Frampton having exhilarating musical conversations with a who's who of the pop world, including Rolling Stones Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman, Pearl Jam's Mike McCready and Matt Cameron, original Shadows Hank Marvin and Brian Bennett, Allman Brothers/Gov't Mule slide slinger Warren Haynes, Nashville pedal steel virtuoso Paul Franklin and gypsy guitar maestro John Jorgenson. In addition, Frampton band mate, Gordon Kennedy, who co-wrote many of the originals as well as co-produces the album, is prominently featured as a guitar companion.