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Grit My Turn (from "A Few Simple Words") This is the instrumental introduction to a long story-song based on some true incidents of uncelebrated courage.
The guitar I used is my largest, a "Semi-Jumbo", with the low E string dropped to D, capoed at the 2nd fret.
Grit Guitarmaker (from "A Few Simple Words") Finally, a song for my trade! Had to write it myself. You hear nothing but guitars on this cut 6-string,
12-string, bass guitar, electric, slide, arch-top, nylon-string. Even the percussion was created by hand-tapping a guitar back and the clave was rosewood.
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Ken Whiteley Light Of Love (from "Acoustic Eclectic") Ken is a master multi-instrumentalist, performer, producer, known in Canada as the "one-man folk
festival" (yet he's equally known as an award-winning blues player). This is Ken's intro to an original Gospel song. His 12-string, the very first instrument to use
my Semi-jumbo shape, is tuned one tone below concert pitch and strung with medium gauge strings.
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Classical
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Rik Emmett The Castle of Regret (from "Ten Invitations") Rik is/was the lead guitarist for the rock band Triumph. Yet here he is, allowing his classical guitar training to
shine through with an original composition.
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Jazz with Nylon Strings
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Wayne Johnson Puvaman (from "Kindred Spirits")
Wayne is a major US jazz instrumentalist who is currently touring
with Manhattan Transfer. On this recording he is using his main guitar: one
of my Brazilian rosewood cutaway classicals. He also uses one of my Nagra
(rosewood) Flamencos.
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Flamenco
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Jesse Cook Switchback (from "Free Fall") Jesse is the hottest fusion-Flamenco player Canada has produced. He plays one of my "Nagra" flamencos. A
Nagra has rosewood back and sides and has a somewhat less edgy sound than a traditional Cypres bodied Flamenco.
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Note: All audio samples are used with permission of the artists.
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