Category Archives: CD

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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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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Readings

Readings
Hayden's Dream was written for a presentation on destiny within the landscape for the Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts. I have often been asked to read my material, and just as often if I have recordings of them. I have created a set of readings with music as they are presented in installations and events. This set includes Hayden's Dream,…
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Featured

Hayden’s Dream

I It was already dark as we entered the path of the circle. Drawn into the ancient riverbed was a great Medicine Wheel in the fresh December snow.  At its center rested a Grandfather Drum, and beneath it, a Manitou stone from a sacred site in far mountains. I had made the Medicine Wheel for our friends and…
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