Passing through Paris recently, he was on his way home to Seattle, looking forward to laying back for a few months. Before moving to Seattle eight years ago, he had lived in New Jersey for 10 years. And before that there were a few years in Belgium. In between and during, he has spent increasingly long periods coming and going and not staying. In the past year, he traveled from Seattle to Europe six times.
Home is just one more stop on the circuit.
Playing music still gives Frisell an adrenalin rush, but lately there have been concerts where, for the first time, burn-out began to get in the way of performance.