MP3 Bob Lamson - My Tree House
The long-awaited follow-up cd to "When Snow Falls." Another collection of delightful instrumental finger-style guitar compositions.
14 MP3 Songs in this album (46:29) !
Related styles: Folk: Fingerstyle, Easy Listening: Background Music, Instrumental
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"My Tree House" is Bob Lamson''s second cd of finger-style pieces for guitar. The vision for this record was born in 2006 at the end of recording his first album "When Snow Falls," but not knowing if he''d record another cd for acoustic guitar, Bob added its title track and another, Coming Home, as bonus tracks to the first album.
"My Tree House" witnesses the further development of Bob''s compositional skills and characteristic approach to finger-style guitar. Twelve of the fourteen tracks are original compositions and two are his arrangements of traditional hymns. It plays on a mostly summer theme, his favorite season, with over half the tracks inspired by summer activities. This album incorporates the use of DADGAD (tracks 1-3), a common alternate tuning Bob experimented with over the years but never to his satisfaction. After writing Forty Seven Eighty Five, he says, "Something finally just clicked and the DADGAD flood gates opened for me." Bob also incorporates his love of collaborating with other musicians to create a multi-layered sound on Ace of Diamonds, which borrows the skills of his best friend Rick Mauran on drums/percussion, co-producer and engineer Dan Merrill on second guitar, and Andy Argondizza on slide guitar, to create an upbeat bluesy ode to one of his favorite hobbies (Dan and Andy also appear on Slingshot Blues). The title track was re-recorded using a different guitar (originally recorded on a Taylor 814 ce L7, re-recorded on an R. Taylor Style 1), at a slightly faster tempo and with an altered "live performance" ending. Any fan of "When Snow Falls" who has waited for the release of Bob''s next cd will not be disappointed! For those who like to know the story behind a song, the CD includes a brief write-up of each track.