This album represents 35 years of almost daily guitar practice and even more years of loving music. Several of the pieces use 'clawhammer' technique and 'high five tuning,' where I replace the low fifth string with a high first string to create a soothing drone that floats over the melody. Multiple genres are represented here, primarily Appalachian, Hawaiian, French and Celtic. There is an equal balance of slow and upbeat pieces on this album. I also play banjo on two tunes and sing on two tunes. But it is mainly a solo guitar album. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for checking in. Steve Baughman San Francisco.
1) Lament for the Death of the Reverand Archie Beaton
2) Sandy River Belle
3) Ku'u Lei Awapuhi
4) Stretched on Your Grave
5) Hanter Dro
6) La Mort Du Petit Binwag
7) Hard Times
8) Loftus Jones
9) The Almost Whisky Waltz
10) Oh for a Thousand Tounges/ Cluck Old Hen
11) The Hillary Two Step
12) Walking Cane
13) Wedding Dress
14) Prelude/ Joyce Beaton's Cajun Saturday Night
15) Neil Gow's Lament for the Death of His Second Wife
16) King's March
17) Arkansas Traveller
18) Last Chance
19) Shady Grove
20) Twin Sisters
21) Mrs. McLeod's
22) Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown?
23) Hello Coon
24) A Fiddle or a Dram
25) Gray Eagle
26) Hook and Line
27) Tempe
28) Chilly Winds
29) Indian Squaw
30) Mole in the Ground
31) Walking in the Parlor
32) Hand on the Plough
33) Piney Ridge
34) Little Doctor Who Fell in the Well
35) Norm's Tune
36) Protect the Innocent
37) Sally Ann
38) French Waltz
39) New River Train
40) Sally Gooden
41) Mississippi Sawyer
42) Jenny Get Around
43) The Boatman
44) Lost Gander
45) Sugar Babe
46) Sail Away Ladies
47) Sally Brown
48) Lonesome John on Clinch Mountain
49) Last Chance
50) Sandy Boys