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Breakfast in the Field
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Track Listing
- Layover
- Happy Couple
- Eleven Small Roaches
- Funky Avacado
- Baby Toes
- Breakfast In The Field
- Two Days Old
- Peg Leg Speed King
- Unexpected Visitor
- Silent Anticipations
- Lenono
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #11326 in Music
- Released on: 1999-10-01
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .21 pounds
Editorial Reviews
CD Description
Michael Hedges's BREAKFAST IN THE FIELD is a stunningly gorgeous debut, and it's as serene and pastoral as its title implies. On this 1981 album (produced by William Ackerman for his renowned Windham Hill label), the virtuoso acoustic guitarist makes an immediate impression, garnering attention with his deft fretwork, inventive compositions, and uncanny sense of both melody and harmony.
Although pianist George Winston and bassist Michael Manring make notable appearances (the latter musician is particularly prominent on "The Funky Avocado"), this record's finest moments are when Hedges is playing solo, as on the lilting "Layover", the dreamy title track, the nimble "Peg Leg Speed King", and the highly percussive "Silent Anticipations". While Hedges often gets unfairly relegated to the New Age category (especially due to the easy-listening reputation of Windham Hill), this initial outing reveals that the late performer had talent that defied easy genre identifications.
Customer Reviews
Unique and brilliant acoustic guitar by a master
The compositions on this album are thoughtful, melancholic (in an uplifting way) and occasionally joyful with moments of sheer transcendent brilliance. However there are a couple of tracks which are a tad self indulgent though nevertheless interesting! Michael Hedges is primarily a composer with virtuosic ability who uses every means he can to paint his musical pictures with the guitar whether it be strumming, picking, tapping, slapping, clever use of harmonics or alternative tunings. It is worth getting just for the magical moments in 'The Happy Couple' and 'Eleven Small Roaches' and the beautiful tribute to John Lennon 'Lenono' (check out the touching reference to 'Imagine' via the fretless bass of Michael Manring towards the end) alone. He went on to make the ground breaking and breath taking album 'Aerial Boundaries'. A classic.
