Clearly

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#		Title	Length
1		Canyon Serenade	4:51	Play
2		Joy	4:52	Play
3		Moonlight Sands	4:18	Play
4		Love's Way	4:40	Play
5		UniVerse (One Song)	3:51	Play
6		Cloud Shadows	5:19	Play
7		(It Feels) Timeless	5:00	Play
8		In The Temple	7:26	Play
9		Healer	4:30	Play
10		Sunlit Mesas	3:48	Play
11		Gone For A Walk	4:00	Play
12		Vibrant Aire	3:07	Play

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Description

I started playing guitar late... at age 16. Well, compared to other people I've played with over the years that is a late start. I've known people who started when they were 3!

My first guitar was an Alvarez Classical. It was a birthday present from my mom. She got it for me because I had promised that I would learn how to play it based on having signed up for a guitar class at the new high school I was going to.

Lo-and-behold I actually learned how to play! I guess the teacher who taught the class figured I had learned good enough that he invited me to return the following year to be a teachers aid. That was kind of cool, but I wasn't very good at it... then.

Somewhere in the second year of playing I decided I wanted an electric guitar. I had seen one in a local pawn shop and started bugging my mom to get it for me. Eventually I got that guitar and an amp for $40.00. Can't do that now!

Influenced by having seen a popular Heavy Metal band on a television show in the mid 70's I decided to be a head-banger guitarist. So from then until about 1983 I played Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Punk and back to Metal in several bands. Because of my easy going, calm demeanor people hardly ever believe I played those styles of music.

Sometime in 1983 I began playing guitar in the Praise & Worship band of a church I had returned to after an extended absence. I learned a lot while I was in that band... especially about the musical expression that lives within my own heart. I really enjoyed my time there and the other musicians I worked with.

By 1986 it was time to move on to the next adventure... though I didn't know what it was. But I had by this time returned to acoustic guitar having been greatly influenced by the music of John Michael Talbot. Then in 1987 I heard the group Acoustic Alchemy on local radio - that pretty much solidified my love of duo-acoustic guitar instrumental music.

Up to that point I had mainly written songs with lyrics which mostly were paraphrases of the Psalms - my favorite book of the Bible. I had written only a few instrumental tunes but something clicked inside after hearing Acoustic Alchemy and then the others that followed. Most of the songs I began writing from that point on were instrumentals. Somewhere between '87 and 1995 I came across several fingerstyle-alternate tuning-guitarists such as Will Ackerman, Alex De Grassi and Michael Hedges. Yet another musical door of exploration opened up.

I joined a local band in 1995 and again started writing lyricly based songs, though I wasn't the lyricist this time. I then had at my disposal someone who has become quite a good friend and "music buddy", and I think he's the best lyricist I've ever known. That lasted about 5 years, included releasing 2 albums and picking up some new writing styles while becoming one of the areas most popular bands. I wrote a few instrumentals during this 5 year period but didn't really get into what I had heard Ackerman, De Grassi and Hedges doing.

It was a couple of years later that I finally began exploring alternate tunings and when I did a whole new way of expressing what is within came about. After writing, in a short amount of time, about 12 songs in this new-found expression I decided that it was right for me to record as a solo guitarist - no longer let the music disipate into the air but let it fall upon others' ears too.

And so here I am in 2006 with my first "solo artist" CD release... Clearly. A result of the blending of influences that spoke most to my heart over the years. I do hope you enjoy what you hear, that you too will find instrumental guitar stylings that are relaxing, meditative, joyful, sensitive, tasty, ethereal, soothing and the sound of many waters.