Category Archives: Music

Music CDs and Recordings

Solstice

Solstice
Many early cultures honored and worshipped the sun as the life giving source of all creation. Throughout the year there are auspicious dates connected to the alignments of our planetary orbit around the sun. Many archeological sites remain today that testify that earlier civilizations tracked these alignments in the landscape. This knowledge helped plot the return of longer…
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Opening

Opening
I apprenticed with musician and luthier Tom Morgan of Dayton, Tennessee in working with acoustic instruments, and worked briefly for Warrior Guitars in Ringgold, Georgia. As someone who treasures acoustic music, I bring instruments to their fullest potential through a simple practice that opens their tone wood into a unique voice of clarity, complexity, and sustain. An acoustic guitar is composed…
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Farewell to Tarwathie

Farewell to Tarwathie
Fleshy, cream colored, and fenestrated, delicious Morels are hollow, with a bulbous fruit that seems to appear overnight, rising from the ground into sunlight after a rain. In April in  Missouri we found them growing in a magical place beneath a giant sycamore tree, nestled into a surreal carpet of Virginia Bluebells. On the way in was…
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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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