Michael Hedges 💎💫💎

 

💛🌾44th ANNIVERSARY🌾Michael Hedges✨Debut Album 🌾Breakfast in the Field 💛release🌾Thursday, October 22, 1981 

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🕊This album is dedicated to my teachers of composition: E. J. Ulrich who sent me on my way, Jean Ivey who let me go my own way, and Morris Cotel who asked me where I was going and why.

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🎻Thanks to Ervin Somogyi of Berkeley, CA who built the splendid guitar used on most of the tunes in this recording. Thanks also to Ken DuBourg of Arbutus, MD who made the guitar used on “Eleven Small Roaches”, “Babytoes", and “Two Days Old”.

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1981, Windham Hill WD-1017

Hedges' ground-breaking solo guitar debut, recorded live to 2-track, with no overdubs. "Wistful, soulfully probing tone-poems..." (Boston Globe), some with accompaniment by George Winston (piano) and Michael Manring (fretless bass). "Hedges' clean execution and impeccable taste make this a very engaging work" - Guitar Player

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All compositions by Michael Hedges

Produced by Will Ackerman.

Recorded at The Music Annex, Menlo Park, CA

Michael Hedges: acoustic guitar

Michael Manring: fretless bass ¹

George Winston: piano ²

Layover

The Happy Couple

Eleven Small Roaches

The Funky Avocado ¹

Baby Toes ¹

Breakfast in the Field

Two Days Old ¹

Peg-Leg Speed King

The Unexpected Visitor

Silent Anticipations

Lenono ¹ ²

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This album was recorded without overdubs or multitracking on a MCI JH 110 A analogue two-track tape recorder at 30 inches per second through a Neve 8036 console with minimal equalization. No noise reduction was employed. The guitar was close-miked in stereo with a matched pair of AKG 452 EB condenser microphones in a cardioid pattern.