Playing acoustic guitar, writing/playing instrumentals and songs, recording, nature.
MOVIES
Performance (this film has a great soundtrack!)
MUSIC
Bert Jansch, Bob Dylan, Ralph Mctell, Santana, The Incredible String Band, Leonard Cohen, Stefan Grossman, Syd Barrett, Davy Graham, John Fahey, Muddy Waters, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tracy Chapman, Nick Drake, B.B.King to Morcheeba and many more.
BOOKS
The crystal and the way of light,
Dzogchen, Lao Tzu,
On having no head-
(zen and the rediscovery of the obvious),
Kindly bent to ease us, Crazy wisdom,
The wisdom of insecurity, 1984,
Alice in wonderland & Through the looking glass, Narnia, Performance, Weaveworld.................
I've been playing fingerstyle acoustic guitar since the late 1960s, writing songs and instrumentals along the way...
I love the sound and range of expression of acoustic guitars!
The guitars I have are -
Avalon Legacy A310CE Premier (amazaque/spruce),
Guild GAD-30E (mahogany/spruce),
Yamaha LS6 (rosewood/spruce)
Yamaha FG-450-SA (ovangkol/spruce).
There are 3 original tracks here. The first, "Little Liberty", is an old recording of a short song written some years ago, the other 2 are more recent instrumentals.
As I've just about reached my limit of allowed upload space on Acousticlife, I've put some stream links to several acoustic instrumentals/songs in "My Blogs".
My website at ezFolk.com has a selection of old and new material, all original compositions, to listen to on site
and as wma & mp3 downloads. I have a few videos there and also on YouTube.
If you would like to, please visit me at ezFolk where you can listen to more of my music and wander round my pages.
4 collections of songs & instrumentals are there,
under the headings -
Thanks for the welcome Steve. I think I'm a bit out of my league
here , but I enjoy the music that you fellows make, there sure is
a lot of talent around. Cheers! .... Gary
thank you for the kinda words. It does amaze me when i can grasp somtehing, i remeber learning drowsy maggie for the first time and not being able to play a note and now I can yay.
I'm sure i will be in touch soon with some musical questions
Wow Steve...Just listened to your stuff on EZFolk. You've got some really lovely tunes on there. I thought "Masquerade" and "Only Love" were terrific. Well done