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Box of Strings

Box of Strings
After years of collecting guitars and the styles of playing them, I have compiled a collection of pieces that is diverse in style and range. The 10 tracks feature playing in Lap Steel, Hawaiian Slack Key, Celtic DADGAD, Nashville Tuning, Baritone, 12-String, and Cross-Tuning. Most tracks were recorded in a single take, in the improvisational style…
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Howl

Howl
In 1987 there was an event reuniting the Beat Poets for a week-long series of performances, exhibitions, and happenings in the Midwest. William Burroughs lived in Lawrence, Kansas at the time, and Allen Ginsberg thought it would be a good time to call all of the troops home for a reunion in Burrows' honor. It was…
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Sculpture Fields

Sculpture Fields
In Chattanooga I went to work for John Henry in building Tatlin’s Sentinel. It was one of many monumental sculptures in steel and aluminum fabricated at his Chattanooga studio. And at 101 feet tall and 100,000 pounds, it is one of the largest contemporary sculptures in the world, and the second tallest in the United States. I drilled the steel…
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Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Will The Circle Be Unbroken
When I first moved to Tennessee I had a guitar to be repaired, but couldn’t remember the name of the man so many people had referred me to for the job. All I knew was that he lived on a mountain top, in another town. Trying to remember, I picked up a phone book, hoping…
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